EchoStar / Dish’s Path Forward

[nelson61]

That would be the smart thing to do, sell it to TPG and let them milk the last few years out of it.

Buy Directv

The DBS spectrum licences are prime property and the value will only go up.

 

[John2021]

Maybe Cash Out time? Sell everything, shut down?

charlie has enough money . this what i was thinking charlie will have a fire sale.. but who will buy who is unknown

 

[John2021]

Buy Directv

The DBS spectrum licences are prime property and the value will only go up.

directv programming with the hopper 3 would be awsome

 

[dvrexpander]

Here is my experience with Best buy and buying a Dishwasher off their website.

1. On Sept 6, 2025 I bought a dishwasher off their website and paid for install and haul away of old dishwasher plus 3 years of warranty with the geek squad.

2. I received email confirmation and order number generated that day.

3. On the 7th, they set a text saying the day of delivery was set for the 24th.

4. On the 22nd I received an update text that my window for delivery would be between 745am and 1045 am on the 24th.

5. So yesterday the 24th, I sat here from 0745 to 1045am and received no text or emails or phone calls. So I called their number through the text message. The computerized message said it would be delivered sometime between 700am and 700pm today.

So I asked for live customer service agent and I was switched to a guy after waiting 5 minutes on hold listening to crappy music. I then asked where they were and why I haven't heard from them. The csr says: " Let me check." He then says: "we don't have the dishwasher in and it won't be in till Oct 13th. Do you want to cancel the order?"

I said Why didn't y'all call me to tell me that or text or email me, like you have been doing all through the month? He said "I am sorry sir, it is a automatic generated computerized system." I said so I made plans to sit here and wait for a delivery that y'all had no intention of making for 3 hours and if I hadn't of called this morning I would still be waiting. I then told him that I had been a Best buy Customer with a 15,000 limit Credit card for over 20 years and this is the first time I tried to use it for appliances and it obviously is a mistake if this is the way the company handles customer deliveries and orders. He then said again: "do you want to cancel?" I said Hell yeah! I then asked if I could get it back in cash, since I had already paid it off using my savings. He said:"It will go back on the card used in 1 to 3 business days."

So I guess I will be using my Best Buy card for groceries next month to get the credit balance off it. I also wrote a complaint to their website under Account-Other heading , since they don't have a way to pick complaint on their site. I got an email today saying that they received my communication and it would be forwarded to the proper department and it will be answered within 48 to 72 hours. I am really curious what their response will be and I bet I will get nothing for my trouble. So yeah customer service is not only dead it is now going A.I. period.

Your first mistake - bought an appliance from a box store - ALWAYS use small mom/pop places!

 

[AZ.]

Your first mistake - bought an appliance from a box store - ALWAYS use small mom/pop places!

In rural America, thats impossible. Hell we lost are little sears appliance place, leaves you with Home Depot!

 

[MikeD-C05]

Your first mistake - bought an appliance from a box store - ALWAYS use small mom/pop places!

We don't have any in my immediate area. Conn's Appliances was a company most in our area relied on for over 75 years and they went belly up this last year. So it's between Lowes, Home Depot and Best Buy. Sears is long gone. Between all these big stores, they pushed out any small mom/pop places a long time ago.

 

[4d3fect]

keep getting a 504. article expired or such like?

 

[4d3fect]

keep getting a 504. article expired or such like?

eh, never mind, working now

 

[Bruce]

A Vision Without Video: Why Does EchoStar’s Strategy Ignore Its Core Business?

Echostar's video strategy barely gets a mention even though it still supports the company. And what it is doing with video isn't working!

nscreenmedia.com

 

[MikeD-C05]

A Vision Without Video: Why Does EchoStar’s Strategy Ignore Its Core Business?

Echostar's video strategy barely gets a mention even though it still supports the company. And what it is doing with video isn't working!

nscreenmedia.com

I have to agree they need to focus on their video business since the 4th cell phone provider company plans are now gone. I think that could include buying Directv and merging the two companies and hopefully making it attractive again to new subs like they said in the article. I guess we will soon see after Charlie gets all the bandwidth sold off and pays off his outstanding debts.

 

[b4pjoe]

hopefully making it attractive again to new subs

I just can't see any future where new customers want to have a dish on their house or in their yard plus coax running everywhere. Maybe a few returning customers might come back but I just don't see a mad rush of many people wanting satellite TV. They both will be extremely lucky to just keep most of what they still have.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I just can't see any future where new customers want to have a dish on their house or in their yard plus coax running everywhere. Maybe a few returning customers might come back but I just don't see a mad rush of many people wanting satellite TV. They both will be extremely lucky to just keep most of what they still have.

Maybe they can offer the streaming version of their service and they won't need the satellites for home service except in very rural areas with no broadband. I keep saying merge both Sling TV and DISH together for a streaming interface that looks like DISH, but keep the Sling TV programming pack prices. They could include all the Sling Free stream channels on its own page. IF you notice most of the fast channels that DISH has added are also on Sling TV Free View channels.

 

[dishdude]

Maybe they can offer the streaming version of their service and they won't need the satellites for home service except in very rural areas with no broadband. I keep saying merge both Sling TV and DISH together for a streaming interface that looks like DISH, but keep the Sling TV programming pack prices. They could include all the Sling Free stream channels on its own page. IF you notice most of the fast channels that DISH has added are also on Sling TV Free View channels.

I agree, this is what they need. A lot of people going to streaming like channel numbers and want a remote with 0-9 buttons.

 

[b4pjoe]

I agree, this is what they need. A lot of people going to streaming like channel numbers and want a remote with 0-9 buttons.

DIRECTV already has it. People are not making a mad rush to sign up for it.

 

[Bruce]

DIRECTV already has it. People are not making a mad rush to sign up for it.

Considering DirecTV ( including Satellite, all the internet versions and Uverse) is now at 8.8 million subscribers at the end of 2Q25, I would say you are correct.

While a service without channel numbers, YouTube TV, is now at 10 Million.

https://www.fitchratings.com/research/corporate-finance/fitch-rates-directv-proposed-senior-secured-debt-offering-bbb-rr1-11-09-2025

 

[AntiMoz]

I agree, this is what they need. A lot of people going to streaming like channel numbers and want a remote with 0-9 buttons.

I have to say that being able to enter a channel number direct is probably the biggest thing I miss from linear TV offerings. YTTV is OK if you sort by "Most Watched" but I end up doing a lot of scrolling anyway.

 

[savarese04]

I have to say that being able to enter a channel number direct is probably the biggest thing I miss from linear TV offerings. YTTV is OK if you sort by "Most Watched" but I end up doing a lot of scrolling anyway.

while that's a valid point, there are so few channels worth watching now, you really only need a list of 5-6 most watched anyway. I thought I would miss channel numbers but with YTTV i just sorted the locals and a couple other networks (ESPN, TNT, etc) toward the top of my list and i'm set. Never scroll past them and when I do, I'm like "oh i remember why I never go down here"

 

[NYDutch]

I have to say that being able to enter a channel number direct is probably the biggest thing I miss from linear TV offerings. YTTV is OK if you sort by "Most Watched" but I end up doing a lot of scrolling anyway.

I agree with scrolling when you don't know what you want to watch, but then we did the same thing on Dish. When we know what we want to watch with our Firestick, we just push the mic button and ask it to find the program. On YTTV, we do have our most frequently used channels arranged at the top of the listings though.

 

[John2021]

we missed the channel numbers button . as much as i love the apple tv i hated the freaking remote. hopefully the come up with a new one!!!

 

[b4pjoe]

we missed the channel numbers button . as much as i love the apple tv i hated the freaking remote. hopefully the come up with a new one!!!

They will never have a remote with numbers.