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Cutters Q&A: Sling VP on Why You Can't Just Move DISH Customers Over to Sling TV | Cord Cutters News
DISH Network is a difficult position. Its video business has lost 1.2 million subscribers over the last year, with defections in its core satellite side dragging down any gains made from live streaming service Sling TV. At the same time, these businesses are supposed to fund the buildout of a 5G...
Interesting. So basically it has the 3 networks available but there is no manual override. I agree with you 100%.
After reading this story I get the impression that they still don't know what to do with DISH. They claim there are two different groups of subs that go to DISH vs Sling TV. The point the interviewer was making to her, was the same thing I have said but I took it further. Merge DISH with Sling TV and give that app the better interface that DISH has and move people off to Sling TV. If a DISH sub wants to quit the service - offer them a discounted Sling TV account for 6 months. Let them use it to determine if they would like it. That way the churn would be less and they wouldn't necessarily lose a subscriber. Doing nothing won't work in this situation. This is the time to try to move their current subs to Sling TV so they don't lose them forever.
You do understand that DirecTV has lost a higher number of subscribers ( both in percentage and numbers) then Dish, yet they carry all of the RSNs.
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Naw. That is how they differentiate themselves.
You do understand that DirecTV has lost a higher number of subscribers ( both in percentage and numbers) then Dish, yet they carry all of the RSNs.
Right before AT&T bought them, they had 20 Million Sat Subscribers, today of 11.8 Million, which includes 2.5 Million Uverse subs and 1.5 Million via internet/stream subs, that leaves the Satellite Service with 7.8 Million.
By the way, DirecTV used to have 6 million more subs then Dish, now the difference is just a million.
Lastly, the RSNs get very low ratings and cord cutting is putting them out of business, today only about 40 million total pay the per sub fee for RSNs, in 2016, about 100 million did.
From this link-
Major Pay-TV Providers Lost About 465,000 Subscribers in 3Q 2023 - Leichtman Research Group
Durham, NH — November 14, 2023 — Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG) found that the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. – representing about 96% of the market – lost about 465,000 net video subscribers in 3Q 2023, compared to a pro forma net loss of about 385,000 in 3Q 2022. The top pay-TV...
On the living room end, I installed a "Simplified SP12S" HDMI splitter with one output fed to the kitchen TV and the other to the living room TV, with a 16 GB 4K MAX Firestick as the source. The Simplified splitter is pricey compared to others, but it's the only one I found that feeds an individual feed to each TV so it adjusts to different sized TV's. The others I looked at all recommended using similar TV's for both feeds. Our living room and kitchen TV's are significantly different, and the SP12S handles them both perfectly. Since the smaller kitchen TV only has one HDMI port, I also installed a two port (2 in, 1 out) HDMI switch in the kitchen that switches between the living room Firestick and currently a Dish Joey that will become a dedicated Firestick when we pause Dish.
Yes, the kitchen will get two remotes (marked), one for each Firestick.
Nice setup. I wish the Hopper had a way to sync recordings. Would of saved me bunches of headaches & expense. I have a HDMI-RF modulator attached to my primary Hopper 3. RF signal goes to my home distribution 12-port RF splitter. I have eight remotes paired to my Hopper. Wife & I sync all the time. Her in Greatroom & me in my redneck man cave in the garage. I get stuck with the skip forward button duties & I better get skip done in a timely manner, if you know what I mean!! I love Autohop.
How do you actually get around the fees by not paying the bill since wouldn't the be adding fees among other fees and then hurt your credit as a result?
