Lilly Broadcasting Blocks Channels to DISH

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You’re not paying for any specific number of locals, nor is any channel guaranteed as per your service agreement. You can instead drop the local package if it is not worth it to you...
This is why I have always thought that the price Dish charges for locals should vary based on factors specific to each market, such as number of channels, how much Dish pays each channel for re-transmission consent, etc. This would make things seem more fair. In the example to which you were replying, the poster only gets six channels (temporarily down to only three) for $10 per month, while other markets get maybe a couple dozen channels for the same price. Alternatively, if Dish is going to charge the same price in every market, then Dish should try to provide close to the same number of channels in every market. This could mean adding national feeds of smaller broadcast entities that lack local in-market affiliates (but are carried as part of the local package in other markets) or adding sub-channels to the Dish local package in smaller markets, to help level the playing field.
 
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Then they’d have to charge separately for the AT120+ and up, for varying RSNs.
They could fix that by making the Regional Action Pack a separate add-on for any base package (just like they did with the local channels) and then charge varying rates for Regional Action Pack based on which / how many RSNs you get.
 
They could, but that is not the system that they chose to use, likely for good marketing reasons. Including stuff in a base price yields more satisfaction, as one national department store found out the hard way, even if it is cheaper.
 
Anybody else that gets there Blacked out Lilly owned local stations over the air, notice that reception seems to get real bad during Prime Time Hours? It started about a week ago here in the Erie,Pa. market it works great during the rest of the time
 

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