Question for Dish retailer who does Free to Guest

[jestes23]

Hello, Im Jeff a local dish retailer. Im competing with Time Warner Cable on a Free to Guest account. I've had trouble getting dish network to really help me so I have turned to this forum for some help.

A little history. About 1 year ago, I took a free to guest account away from Time Warner, saving the hotel $800 a month, and giving them HD channels.

Now the same hotel owner is building another hotel and Time Warner has come in with a low ball price on monthly programming, and free upfront costs. Im sure this is a loss leader for them but that sucks for us little guys.

My question is this. Is there a FCC law on what TWC can charge for programming? I know ESPN and HBO are the biggest expense, so how can TWC charge less for what dish makes them pay?

Any help in combating this company would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[GaryPen]

I think Scott, the owner of this forum, also runs a retailer forum. I'll bet that's a better place for answers to questions like that.

 

[Scherrman]

You may want to call your distributor or ask the question on the Dish Portal. I can't imagine they can change the rates of the programming itself but they can offer all the equipment and labor for free. You can also offer the equipment and labor for free but you better hope they keep Dish for a long time so you can make some money from it.