Not foolish at all. CNN viewership is down by 21%. They can't get more than 400,000 viewers to tune in between 8-10PM. How many of those are DISH customers? With those prime time numbers, how can CNN garner a reported $0.54/sub/month?
No, I don't see the correlativity between Nickelodeon and this. DISH does not have any exclusivity agreements with the networks in question. Netflix is a sophistry at best.
Actually, I do differentiate. Which is why I can see that this is not about a carriage fee dispute.
Sapan's supposititious carriage fee is not relevant. Have you failed to notice that DISH has said almost nothing on the issue?
Peculiar. You, like others, chastise people for comparing viewership/ratings of CNN & AMC [etc], yet you toss in MSG, a regional sports network, as an example. Last I knew, DISH was not the only provider to DROP MSG. As I recall, Time-Warner dropped MSG in December.
As far as bundling channels goes, looks like all the networks with more than one channel will be doing it soon. ESPN, Disney, ABCFamily, etc will be next, based on a comment by Bob Iger.
I am not blind, mellow. I am also not nieve. If DISH had any intention of keeping AMC, they have had a strange way of showing it. At any rate, DISH feels you have a right to skip commercials, not choose what networks you want to watch which is why it filed its Autoskip lawsuit, in the same court that handed it a huge loss in May [brilliant, Charlie!]
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