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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    It is a great time to be on the consumer end of things! All of the interconnectivity with the web will be great! 50 to 60 competitors entering the market. Cable bundle dissolving right before our very eyes. Dish is needing to release their" thin client" here soon to stay relevant, it appears...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    We know its coming to Dish, this should create some new customers. https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Outlines-the-Changes-DirecTV-and-UVerse-Users-Will-See-134789 http://www.fiercecable.com/story/att-stop-investing-u-verse-cpe-will-move-new-home-architecture-using-direct/2015-08-12
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    50 to 60 competitors for Dish, times are changing, what must Dish do to break out from the pack? At the same time, Ergen sees the number of options available to customers continuing to expand. Whether it's more stand-alone OTT services or services offered by competing pay-TV providers, the Dish...
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    ESPN Cutting Costs

    Yep, Writing is on the wall. Major League Baseball’s technology division built streaming services for HBO and ESPN. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-30/tv-networks-outsource-their-streaming-video
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    Wall Street is reporting that DISH and T-mobile in Merger talks

    Charlies last mile dream is being eaten up by municipalities, small private companies, large companies, etc. 10 Billion Fed Dollars on the table to push broadband (25 mbps minimum) into underserved areas. (rural prime satellite areas), which is a double whammy for Dish.The pricing is cheap with...
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    ESPN Cutting Costs

    Do you sports fans agree with this? http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2015/07/when-a-subscriber-is-not-the-customer-surviving-the-unbundling-of-pay-tv/
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    Just to keep you guys informed http://www.fiercecable.com/story/pay-tv-execs-are-clearly-disconnected-reality-change-isnt-5-years-away-its/2015-08-10
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    Soon to be # 2 cable operator is switching to skinny bundles, SlingTV and other internet TV providers already there, Dish has no other option than to follow suit with some more desirable skinny bundles, Can it afford to make that move due to the high cost of Dish installation and sat. overhead...
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    ESPN Cutting Costs

    Good article on the imploding sports TV/Cratering cable bundle these are some of the questions you probably want to ask yourself: How much value do those existing contracts have as the TV market continues to implode? What could potential competitors, including the leagues themselves, do to...
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    Bad, Bad News for Dish

    Another blow to Dish http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/crtc-to-review-satellite-internet-pricing-in-nunavut-n-w-t-and-yukon/373985 They have already forced rate reductions here http://www.itworldcanada.com/article/crtc-lowers-internet-rates-in-northern-canada/166777 Charlie is getting...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    Only problem with the new satellites they are NOT for the American TV market. The writing is on the wall for set top boxes, DVR's etc., All going to the cloud where they should be to serve the new internet TV services. It's all about efficiency, no need to spend billions manufacturing...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    Please remember this is just the 1st inning. You heard the roar from Wall st. today. Thisis from Q1 Dish Network Roger Lynch - CEO, Sling TV and EVP, Advanced Technologies Sure. On VOD there is actually quite a lot of VOD that's available today I think we need to do a better job of making it...
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    Bad, Bad News for Dish

    So how does Dish sustainably grow its Pay-TV business from the ~13.9 million subscriber base? I don't think it can. To grow sales with a declining subscriber base, the only option is to increase the price (ARPU was ~$88 in Q2 2015, up from ~$84 in Q2 2014). But increasing the price for Pay-TV...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    xxi is slated for Europe S band hybrid mobile, what sats are Dish/Echostar putting up for Satellite TV in the U.S. market? http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/03/25/echostar-prepares-launch-for-solaris-mobile/ http://echostarmobile.com/
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    How many of these Prime Rural one million plus customers that are starved for broadband will drop their sat service and go with the cheaper internet TV service? I am saying at least 25% will and that will equal 300,000 subscriber loss and that's being conservative. Imagine when the numbers...
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    Bad, Bad News for Dish

    Conference Call Transcript 2Q http://seekingalpha.com/article/3405885-dish-network-dish-charles-william-ergen-on-q2-2015-results-earnings-call-transcript 10 Billion dollars, rural towns, counties etc, will be jumping on this, this so happens to be prime satellite dish areas, going to feel the...
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    Bad, Bad News for Dish

    Not at all, I am Looking for Dish's SlingTV to do just fine, The legacy Dish installing business is the one on the ropes. As asked above what happens if Charlie decides to split the company?
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    How bad can it get? That's even worse than before at least Dish would have kept some of those 1 million plus homes in house now they will probably be gone forever. Charlie can't catch a break lately. Frontier Wireless LLC whom Dish used to bid at the FCC auction is another company that, if the...
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    Bad, Bad News for Dish

    Dish's spectrum holdings to get devalued when LTE U kicks in, investors already shaky over Dish's valuation . LTE-U to move cellular carriers onto open airwaves The technology, LTE-U, travels on public airwaves, using the same frequencies as Wi-Fi, according to The Washington Post. If LTE-U...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    Because they no longer can call their service Broadband that's why. They used to be able to mislead customers but no more. Frontier is able to call theirs Broadband because it is 25mbps or more...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    What is the FCC doing to Dish Network right now? 1st. inning, more to come, enjoy the game. http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2015/07/22/fcc-poised-to-reject-dish-networks-3-3-billion.html
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    ESPN Cutting Costs

    Burnt Toast http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/06/business/media/disney-time-warner-media-investors-worry-about-tvs-future.html might want to pay attention to the new guys...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    The FCC has changed the definition of broadband The minimum broadband download speeds now begin at 25Mbps, up from 4Mbps Frontier owned by Dish will not get the funding from the fed unless the service is 25mbps or higher, new regs from Net Neutrality. Just a 10% uptake of the NEW internet...
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    ESPN Cutting Costs

    Really nothing else to say U.S. Stocks Drop on Disney-Led Media Meltdown http://www.nasdaq.com/article/us-stocks-drop-on-disneyled-media-meltdown-20150806-01017 Wall St. falls as media stocks slump http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/06/us-markets-stocks-idUSKCN0QB18U20150806 Media...
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    Dish Continues to Lose Pay-TV Subscribers

    How many customers will Dish cannibalize from Dish? The subscriber numbers are only going to get worse, much worse for the cable/sat big bundle models, you might as well get used to it because this is just the first inning. Frontier (Dish owned) will snatch a good portion of Dish sat...