Fresco,
Charlie offered an a la carte slot to YES for nothing. They told YES that they could set their price for the a la carte subscription and they would get ALLLLLLLLLLLLLL the money fromt he subscriptions. Dish would absorb the uplink and administrative costs thereby losing money on the deal but it could be a loss leader for Dish.
Sounds fair, right?
YES did not agree and refused the terms. Who is it that doesn't care about NYC?
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They aren't going to get it. They were offered EVERY DOLLAR raised form people who want the channel. What they want is to extort money from subscribers that have no desire to get this channel! We are talking more than a couple of bucks per month per EVERY subsriber in the YES area whether or not they want the channel. It's not nickels and dimes.
So to make is simple, as long as YES stick to this model, they will not be on Dish. And since the launch of YES, Dish is still growing subscribers and still profitable so YES is not that big a deal.
See ya
Tony