Tampa8
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I'm posting here because a new fee has come to light with Direct TV. But I want to make this Dish related.
It is being reported that some are getting something like a $1 per RSN fee added to their account in certain DMA's. It appears to be if multiple (I am thinking more than two) RSN's exist, and also if they are "expensive." To be honest I'm not sure anyone knows the actual criteria or how widespread the fees will be.
I would have to guess now that Direct admits what Dish has been saying all along, that they can not absorb the RSN fees any longer, that Dish may do something similar. This may mean the addition of the NY RSN's for instance.
What I hope is, that dish finds a way to make this only for people who actually want those channels. It appears to me (I admit I can not be sure from the few threads about it) that everyone pays in that DMA. It isn't going to be pretty if people who are with Dish because they don't care so much for sports, are not given a choice and have to pay dollars more a month.
To me the fee is fair, it's a start to what Dish has wanted, separate pricing for the RSN's. But you have to get them out of the packages then.
It is being reported that some are getting something like a $1 per RSN fee added to their account in certain DMA's. It appears to be if multiple (I am thinking more than two) RSN's exist, and also if they are "expensive." To be honest I'm not sure anyone knows the actual criteria or how widespread the fees will be.
I would have to guess now that Direct admits what Dish has been saying all along, that they can not absorb the RSN fees any longer, that Dish may do something similar. This may mean the addition of the NY RSN's for instance.
What I hope is, that dish finds a way to make this only for people who actually want those channels. It appears to me (I admit I can not be sure from the few threads about it) that everyone pays in that DMA. It isn't going to be pretty if people who are with Dish because they don't care so much for sports, are not given a choice and have to pay dollars more a month.
To me the fee is fair, it's a start to what Dish has wanted, separate pricing for the RSN's. But you have to get them out of the packages then.