Petition: Add DIY to Top 200/ Ala Carte

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Many of us love the DIY channel, I know I do! I have learned quit a bit about home repair, upgrades and renovation. All in all this provides me with the education to prevent costly repairs that I would have to otherwise pay for.

However the DIY channel is only carried in Dish Networks Top 250 Package. Many of us subscribe to Top 120 or Top 200, and do not want to spend the extra $15-$25 a month to have this channel.

Dish Network, please consider adding this channel to Top 200, or if possible, Top 120. If neither of this will work, consider making it an Ala Carte Channel. I'm sure if that is done, it will be a channel many of us won't mind paying for.

http://www.change.org/petitions/dish-network-add-diy-to-top-120-200-ala-carte-2
 
AT250 also includes the movie channels for a few dollars more.

Some of the DIY programming bounces around with HGTV anyway. Holmes on Holmes and some of the Kitchen/ Yard/ Bath Crasher type shows from time to time.

Several years ago Discovery dropped the Home themed channel in favor of Planet Green that is now also gone. But I enjoyed the "classic" This Old House programs (from the 80-90s) and Bob Vila's Home Again series that Discovery carried.
 
Won't get you what you think. Same old story, DIY A La Carte will be somewhere near the $10 for everything you get with getting the Top250. And be careful what you wish for, adding it and maybe another request or two will cost everyone in the package more. DIY to me is perfect in the highest package.
 
Tampa8 said:
Won't get you what you think. Same old story, DIY A La Carte will be somewhere near the $10 for everything you get with getting the Top250. And be careful what you wish for, adding it and maybe another request or two will cost everyone in the package more. DIY to me is perfect in the highest package.
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Seriously, $10? Isn't that the cost of ESPN? I could see $3 to $5 for the single channel like DIY. The price has to be at least reasonable. How much is paid for the slot of channels DIY is part of?

I'd pay $5 a month for TCM in HD if I was allowed to keep my lower priced package.
 
No not $10, closer to $5 in my opinion. I guess the question, is $60 a year savings worth not getting all the other channels the next package has. For some I suppose it might, for me I'd rather pay the extra $60 and get the Science channel and all the others. Also, even A La Carte does not mean a channel will be available for any package. Even when I had the BIG dish, some channels could not be added to the smallest packages. (Often they were groups of channels)
Sometimes you had to have a qualifing package first.
 
DIY is in two other packages. DIY SD is also in the Smart Pack for $24.99/month. In addition, the DIY SD and HD feeds are in Dish Latino Max (which is eligible for HD Free for Life) for $57.99/month
 
I've made a suggestion before about allowing an ala-carte selection of channels in the next-tier package, but it was shot down to hell. For example, if you are in AT200 and want a channel or two from AT250, you could pay, say, $3 for one AT250 channel, $5 for 2 AT250 channels, and anything more than that you would have to upgrade to the AT250 package. In order to select a channel from a higher package, you would first have to subscribe to the package level just below it.
 
I wish the content providers would play nice and allow us to have Ala Carte. I currently pay for 200 channels. In reality I only watch about 20 of them.
 
My thoughts on ala-carte.

A programming package with either Directv or Dishnet may seem expensive, but there is a LOT that goes into that.

1. Actual Programming Charges.
2. Satellite Launches.
3. Customer Support Base
4. Uplink Center Expenses
5. Dish and Receiver Manufacturing Costs

Back in the early to mid 90s, programming for Dish and Directv was cheap. The reason primarily for this is because many people paid in full for their system. Today you get a system for FREE, back then a system was $200-$400. Since more people owned their receiver, then dish/directv did not have to give you a system on their dime.

Programming costs took a hike in the late 90s as systems started to become subsidized. Cell phones were the same way too. A cell phone that used to cost 600 dollars was now $49.99 with a commitment.

But, the cost is passed on to you somehow, and it's in the form of your monthly bill.

Dish Network and Directv both have launched many satellite into the sky. This costs about 250 million dollars each. They did not do this for free, the cost is reflected in your monthly bill.

What about all the people working in the uplink centers, and support centers, they get paid too, the cost for this is in your monthly bill.

When it's all said and done, I'm guessing maybe 20-40 percent of your bill goes to things besides paying the programmers.

Ala carte sounds like a good deal, pick maybe 20 channels, and pay $15 a month for them.

However, if everyone was given this option, it would severely impact the income of both Satellite TV companies.

Maybe they will have to lay people off, maybe they can't launch as many satellites, they may even start charging you for receivers.
 
It isn't exactly Dish. The channels don't want a la carte because they want people to pay for channels they don't watch. How many Dish subs were dying because AMC went away verses WE going away?

As others noted above, between a few packages, a la carte doesn't really make things cheaper. Now, if you have Latino Dos and a channel is only in 250 (Versus HD or TCM HD) the cost of 250 vs a la carte is notable.
 
coinmaster32 said:
I wish the content providers would play nice and allow us to have Ala Carte. I currently pay for 200 channels. In reality I only watch about 20 of them.
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You would likely pay as much or more for those 20 channels than the entire package you have now. The best you could likely do is get certain "packs" of channels sold this way without screwing up the entire business model.
 
Volmaul said:
You would likely pay as much or more for those 20 channels than the entire package you have now. The best you could likely do is get certain "packs" of channels sold this way without screwing up the entire business model.
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My idea in post#12 would allow for the existing business model AND give more ala carte choices to the viewer.
 
coinmaster32 said:
I wish the content providers would play nice and allow us to have Ala Carte. I currently pay for 200 channels. In reality I only watch about 20 of them.
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Don't assume its just the networks. Cable and satellite providers have just as much to gain.
 

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