Hi all,
this is my first post, although I've been reading the forums here @ SatelliteGuys for a long time.
I'm a big soccer fan and specially I love La Liga, the Spanish Soccer League and European soccer in general.
This is my perspective of this issue,
despite whoever is right here, Dish or GolTV, I think Dish is still making a bad decision, they are dropping Goltv that is a well-watched channel in the latino community. I don't have any real statistics to support this but I can say that ALL the latino subscribers I know watch GolTV, and I know more than 1 or 2. It might not be enough to move away from Dish but then, it might be a big deal for some.
I think for Dish would have made more sense to wait for next season (it doesn't even have to be the end of next year, this season ends in May/June 2008) and then if the Spanish Soccer La Liga's rights were bought by ESPN (or other than GolTV as the rumor says) they would have much more power to deal against GolTV.
Now it's going to be hard to get back all the subscriber that they lose because of this, especially if they move to Directv, because the latino packages are esentially the same.
In my case, I gave Dish a chance to put GolTV back but they failed to do so, at the end of the day I don't care who's right or wrong, I just want to watch GolTV, the Spanish Soccer League and the exclusive programming they offer. Since there are other providers that gives me GolTV plus the same programming I already have I choose to move away from Dish and take my monthly $100++ to a different place. If Dish got to offer something jucier when my new contract expires they may get me back (depending of DirecTV's retention policy, cause DishNetwork retention policy is non-existent).
Ahh... and I didn't mention that I almost moved away when they removed the VOOM channels... I only stayed with Dish because nobody else was offering them... removing GolTV was the last drop.
Last,
I want to mention that I moved to Dish because they were the first to offer GolTV and ESPN deportes, I applauded that move back then, but I'm dissapointed now for all the channels they're dropping.
Cheers.
= P =