Echostar prepares potential bankruptcy filing

[fmj77]

YouTube TV would like to have a word with you. Working satellites hasn't been stopping subscribers from leaving. The "can't stream" crowd is shrinking every day. The "don't want to stream" crowd isn't going to be enough to keep cable and satellite TV services afloat.

My 82 year old neighbor got fed up with the high cost of everything. He cancelled Dish and his Spectrum internet and put up a Televes antenna on his roof that gives him about 50 channels. His monthly cost for entertainment? A grand total of zero dollars.

 

[b4pjoe]

My 82 year old neighbor got fed up with the high cost of everything. He cancelled Dish and his Spectrum internet and put up a Televes antenna on his roof that gives him about 50 channels. His monthly cost for entertainment? A grand total of zero dollars.

Zero dollars and no internet service. That is great if you live where you can get OTA. I can get exactly zero channels via OTA.

 

[navychop]

I assume he is not picky about his channels / networks.

 

[dishdude]

Why?

Before I pull the trigger.

Why what?

 

[HipKat]

First, DirecTV has only been trying their new Genre Packs for a few months, way too early to make a judgement.

Dish has been pushing Boost for 5 years, to a loss of 1.8M customers.

No, they haven't. They just started "pushing" it to existing customers by techs at truck rolls.
Now they're taking orders for tech-delivered phones, tablets, watches and sim cards.

Boost stores still don't have Dish signage.
They may have been bought in but they haven't been pushing anything

 

[navychop]

Why what?

Why be gone?

 

[dishdude]

Why be gone?

I work from home and like to have the news on mute in the background, it's nice to not have it eating up internet bandwidth. I have an owned Wally so no fees, OTA antenna for locals and with the $30/mo discount I think it's worth it. I love the service, but the content is lacking (not Dish's fault).