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

 

[MikeD-C05]

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

If the networks keep cutting out scripted drama and sitcoms I will watch less and less of them. I refuse to watch reality or game shows. Pure trash. There is plenty of other things I can watch between all the other apps and the free stuff like Tubi. CBS is the only network that is still showing a lot of shows during prime time. But mostly procedural and cop/ NCIS/FBI shows.

 

[MikeD-C05]

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

Annual price hikes since 2000 + DISH fees + lack of original content and just network reruns on most of the cable channels in the programming packs is why I dumped DISH at the beginning of 2022 after 25 years with them.

I can watch my locals via antenna and use either TABLO or my Air TV Anywhere 4 tuner dvr. One time fee for the Televes Antenna and the Tablo and the Air TV dvr. Free services like Pluto and Tubi give me all the reruns of network TV I can watch. Sling TV for any cable channels I do watch for any special events I have to watch and then drop them. The best part is NO FEES for all these things, except I do pay a $5.00 unlimited Cloud DVR fee for Sling TV, so I can record as much of it as I want to, even the free view stuff. Satellite no longer needed.

 

[Yespage]

I wouldn't consider it "dumping Dish", but this latest slate of increases is pretty much pushed me to the breaking point, and I'll likely be turning off Dish. I'm spending too much for a few channels, of which I have access to a good deal of content from said channels elsewhere already. I've ordered an HD Homerun and will see how that works for an OTA DVR, and if all is well, going to say goodbye to this growing antiquated service. It isn't Dish, it is the networks. Dish provided me an ability to make things as cheap as possible from Latino Dos to Welcome Pack turn Flex Pack when Welcome Pack stopped being remotely a deal.

I'll pick up the USA games on EPL via a delay when needed via Peacock. I can supplement more football with Paramount+. A few more sacrifices, but save several bucks.

 

[dishdude]

I wouldn't consider it "dumping Dish", but this latest slate of increases is pretty much pushed me to the breaking point, and I'll likely be turning off Dish. I'm spending too much for a few channels, of which I have access to a good deal of content from said channels elsewhere already. I've ordered an HD Homerun and will see how that works for an OTA DVR, and if all is well, going to say goodbye to this growing antiquated service. It isn't Dish, it is the networks. Dish provided me an ability to make things as cheap as possible from Latino Dos to Welcome Pack turn Flex Pack when Welcome Pack stopped being remotely a deal.

I'll pick up the USA games on EPL via a delay when needed via Peacock. I can supplement more football with Paramount+. A few more sacrifices, but save several bucks.

This month my last $30 credit will be applied to my bill, if they don't renew the offer I am cancelling as well for the same reasons you outlined. I have a Wally with a OTA adapter, so that has helped keep things reasonable along with the $30 credit per month. At full price, it's not worth it. Can't imagine if I had a Hopper and a Joey or two.