Dish 2025-26 Price Increases

[rvvaquero]

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.

I'm trying to come up with things which haven't at least doubled or tripled in price since 2000. Many items have doubled just in the past five years, much less 25 years. Compared to 2000, what does housing, insurance, food, automobiles, etc cost now?

Cellular service is less expensive now than then. That's understandable, as it was still in it's toddler stage then. Flat screen TV's are probably less. They were in their infancy at that time. In fact, electronics of all kinds may have held their prices pretty well in the past 25 years, probably mainly due to moving their construction from the USA and Japan to China, Vietnam, India, etc.

I don't like price increases any more than the next person, but I don't think DISH's price raises are particularly out of line with other goods and services in the marketplace, especially those in the recreation field.

Cost of Burger over the Years
One Day Ticket to Disney World

 

[Yespage]

Cable networks need to relearn what variety is and actually program a daily schedule with something other than all day marathons.

Almost all of the Cable Networks are owned by five companies now (Warner Bros, Disney, Comcast, Paramount, and Fox). This isn't the '90s or even the '00s. These are massive conglomerates that have relegated cable channels to a single line in spreadsheet, and being cheap is king.

 

[nelson61]

We are down to zero national networks and it it working out nicely
If we get hungry for some national news, we pick either a local or national news streaming on a Firestick for free.
They are surprisingly good