Dish 2025-26 Price Increases

[zippyfrog]

Here in Illinois, the law requires TV providers to let consumers know within 30 days that their prices are going to increase, and Dish did that today...changes are in effect 9/11/2025.

All packages are going up $5. Locals are staying the same - for now. There is a specific note from Dish that locals aren't changing "at this time."

MyDISH

my.dish.com

 

[MikeD-C05]

Here in Illinois, the law requires TV providers to let consumers know within 30 days that their prices are going to increase, and Dish did that today...changes are in effect 9/11/2025.

All packages are going up $5. Locals are staying the same - for now. There is a specific note from Dish that locals aren't changing "at this time."

MyDISH

my.dish.com

"At this time" means it will be soon.

 

[Yespage]

Price hikes were more managaleable when there wasn't several services hiking the rates annually.

 

[Bruce]

Price hikes were more manageable when there wasn't several services hiking the rates annually.

They also make sense when there was more new content, not less and less every year.

The majority of cable channels' content is either all reruns or very little new content.

Now the Broadcast Networks are following what the cable channels are doing.

 

[rvvaquero]

The majority of cable channels' content is either all reruns

The majority (over 90%) of streaming channels' content is reruns. Of course, if you haven't seen it before reruns are just fine.

 

[cpdretired]

Any "C" banders around. Pick what you want to watch. Not all the junk your forced to pay for.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Price hikes were more managaleable when there wasn't several services hiking the rates annually.

DISH has had an annual price hike every year , either package increase or some fee they created , since 2000. I used to sub to AEP in 2000 and it was like $69.99 for all the premium movie channels + top 250. Now that same pack is $147.99 before the next price hike. So $78.00 more today.

Remember in 1997 the top 50 pack was $25.00 a month. That pack is now the top 120 and sells for $91.99 a month for 190 channels. A $66.99 increase in the last 28 years and soon to go up again this year.

And those programming packs don't include the DISH additional receiver fees or the DVR fees. Tack on another $29.00 for the DVR fee and 2 additional joey fees. And people wonder why DISH is losing subs at over a million a year now.

 

[Bruce]

The majority (over 90%) of streaming channels' content is reruns. Of course, if you haven't seen it before reruns are just fine.

The vast majority of new scripted content is on streaming services.

This is the upcoming Broadcast Networks Fall Schedule-

ABC only 5 Hours of new scripted content out of 22 PrimeTime Hours
NBC-7 Hours
CBS-13 Hours
FOX-4 Hours including 2 Hours of cartoons ( out of 14 PrimeTime hours)

 

[rvvaquero]

The vast majority of new scripted content is on streaming services.

This is the upcoming Broadcast Networks Fall Schedule-

ABC only 5 Hours of new scripted content out of 22 PrimeTime Hours
NBC-7 Hours
CBS-13 Hours
FOX-4 Hours including 2 Hours of cartoons ( out of 14 PrimeTime hours)

The only thing I watch on Broadcast Networks is news/sports. Been that way for many years.

I subscribe to Prime Video and Paramount+, two very popular streaming services. I'll use Paramount+ as an example. They show lot's of movies. Unless that movie is a made for Paramount premiere, it is a rerun. They also produce several series. I would guess they have about 20 series that they produce 10 new episodes for each year. That comes to approximately 200 hours of new content per year. Those 200 hours are less than 3% of the 8760 hours in a year. That's why I suggest that the vast majority of their programming is reruns.

It's all about perspective. I have never watched a single minute of Friends, Cheers, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, and many others. So, there's lot's of new content out there for me, if I so choose to watch it.

 

[Yespage]

The vast majority of new scripted content is on streaming services.

This is the upcoming Broadcast Networks Fall Schedule-

ABC only 5 Hours of new scripted content out of 22 PrimeTime Hours
NBC-7 Hours
CBS-13 Hours
FOX-4 Hours including 2 Hours of cartoons ( out of 14 PrimeTime hours)

Yeah, but these broadcasters are the ones creating the content but putting access to them only through streaming. It isn't like there are a bunch of independent content producers online verses sat/cable stations. These are the same four or five companies now. They want their monthly eyeball fee from cable/sat, but are off shoring the content through a streaming service.

 

[Bruce]

They want their monthly eyeball fee from cable/sat, but are off shoring the content through a streaming service.

Except less and less subscribers pays that per sub fee, as reported every quarter.

Paid Live TV losses is already over the 4 Million count this year, should hit 7-8 Million total this year, the highest yet.

So many expects the exodus to slow down, but it keeps increasing.

This price will not help with Dish's subscriber problems.

 

[Yespage]

Except less and less subscribers pays that per sub fee, as reported every quarter.

Paid Live TV losses is already over the 4 Million count this year, should hit 7-8 Million total this year, the highest yet.

So many expects the exodus to slow down, but it keeps increasing.

This price will not help with Dish's subscriber problems.

That isn't remotely relevant to what I said in response to what you noted. Yes, cable/sat are losing subs. We all know that. You keep repeating it for some reason.

My complaint (based on the content point you raised) is the companies are burning the candle at both ends and screwing the customers. There is less new programming on cable/sat, but that is because the networks are the reason for that. They want money on both ends. Star Trek Strange New Worlds is very capable of being broadcasted on CBS or a Viacom cable channel. But they don't, because they want people to sub to Paramount+.

The companies that own the streaming services are the ones abandoning Cable/Sat, except they still want their rates. Which makes the bill go up on cable/sat.