Richard,
It got your attention, didn't it?
Welcome Yankee Fan I hope you enjoy the forums.
Why can't Dish just add YES? This question has been asked 50,000 times and the answer is still the same. Dish does not want to pay the amount of money that YES wants for the channel. Dish has come up with several counter offers which have all been rejected by YES. The most talked about one is where Dish offerend YES an a la carte channel. YES get's every single nickel from the a la carte fee. Dish absorbs the cost of uplink, administration. YES rejected the offer. Several major cable systems balked at YES's price for a while but all caved to customer pressure. Dish refused to give in to blackmail.
So that's that. Unless YES lowers its price or accepts a channel slot on Dish, they aren't going to be on Dish.
See ya
Tony