Mike White has learned from the best: Also airing on the service is a video of DirecTV CEO Mike White, who says that he has been in negotiations with Viacom for several months about "how much of your bill is fair to pay for their networks. Unfortunately, Viacom has decided to take their channels away from our customers. It is a temporary and regrettable tactic to try to force you to pay substantially more for all their networks. Even the ones you don't watch or care about."
Hey, that's Charlie Ergan's script!
Ol' Mike keeps following in Charlies footprints. I'm glad to see DirecTV finally doing something of significance about the huge cost of programming that are passed on to us, the consumer. But all those who had slammed Ergan for the same tactics and viewed DirecTV as a service who would never "drop channels" on the scale at Dish because they felt DirecTV was more "stable" have to eat their words a bit now as DirecTV as about 17 channels are no longer available on DirecTV due to contract negations. Not even Charlie comes close to this scale of channels drops. DirecTV has set the bar very high for the next channel drops at other MVPD. Thanks Mike for actually have the guts to take a stand on the programming costs.
Hey, that's Charlie Ergan's script!
Ol' Mike keeps following in Charlies footprints. I'm glad to see DirecTV finally doing something of significance about the huge cost of programming that are passed on to us, the consumer. But all those who had slammed Ergan for the same tactics and viewed DirecTV as a service who would never "drop channels" on the scale at Dish because they felt DirecTV was more "stable" have to eat their words a bit now as DirecTV as about 17 channels are no longer available on DirecTV due to contract negations. Not even Charlie comes close to this scale of channels drops. DirecTV has set the bar very high for the next channel drops at other MVPD. Thanks Mike for actually have the guts to take a stand on the programming costs.