Here's Why You Should Love Him.
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Ergen's at least minding the store in a flawed market
I have a simple philosophy as it relates to businesses. There may be short-run dislocations, but in the long run, value will eventually flow to the entity that creates it. Because of the lack of a la carte programming, that's not what's happening in pay-TV now. What we're currently experiencing is a consumer shift in which many are rejecting the bloated package of the pay-TV model.
As a result, many households are trading down to smaller pay-TV packages, cord-slimming, or going without the service altogether, also known as cord-cutting. While large, persistent content price increases are good for Kardashians, professional athletes, and million-dollar pols who tell their audience what candidate they should vote for, it's bad for average families scraping to get by.
In the absence of a market in which the consumer directly chooses what to consume and pay for, Ergen is the next-best thing. The CEO's brash approach of dealing with programmers to keep content costs low benefits all DISH's subscribers and, tangentially, all pay-TV subscribers, as future programming negotiations are often based upon recently closed deals. For that, Ergen is deserving of respect from all pay-TV subscribers, even if he remains the most hated man in Hollywood.