Dish Network and Fox dispute

Anyone besides me miss the baseball games
Dish has taken away, haven't seen a
reduction in my bill yet? Thanks in
advance, I know bb is not for everyone!

Yes, and it's getting on my nerves. Luckily, the Little League World Series regional games have started so I can watch them. I find it irritation how Dish makes it seem as if it's the channels fault, when it's usually Dish trying to force them into a huge price increase.

I understand, we have the same thing going on with our local NBC channel on Directv, missed the Daytona Nascar race in July because of it, GRRRR!

These contract disputes seem to be a regular disruption on some satellite-TV systems. I've seen it happen with sports channels, weather channels, political channels, etc. That, along with the routine weather-related disruptions that have been a minor plague this rainy summer, have me rethinking my satellite TV. And that's not even considering what feels like almost-monthly rate hikes. The big question: Can I wean myself away from it all?

I put Netflix on my tv. my dish bill was 112 a month. the Netflix is 15 a month. called dish and to them to stop my subscription as I bought an antenna for local stations. they said for 7.99 a month for 6 months I could have local channels plus a few more. we upgraded our internet for 15 bucks. its not dish at fault its the tv stations. don't have all the news stations which is a relief due to all the hatred and fake news anyway. a lot of the stations keeps showing same thing over and over. espn will show a ball game then hour later show it again. espn has went to the dogs. all I can say is I remember years ago you could turn the tv on on sat night and there would be a good movie to watch. if you watched your local news you new it was all true and current. well folks welcome to the new society.

My wife is really ------ off that a couple of comedy shows aren?t available on our cable anymore. Customers don?t count for much, I guess.

Just wondering who was it that was making you watch all those stations you were watching you didn't like? With my Dish set up I can choose to watch what I want to watch and never watch some channels.

It?s caused by the change federal mandate of ?must carry? rules where the cable tv companies had to put the local channel on the cable system. The tv stations did not charge for this. . Now it?s ?may carry? but the local station may charge the cable or satellite company for the service. I feel for the TV stations. Once they were 1 of 3 places to watch. Now they are 1 of n. On top of that, the feds required the TV stations to make an incompatible digital upgrade and in a lot of cases a change carrier frequencies. All at a cost of around a $1,000,000 per station. It?s a matter of economics. Glad I don?t own any TV stock.

Locally we have been without CBS, for a month now on Direct TV. I know a couple on Dish who dont have Fox or NBC. Im not sure what In going to do yet, but Ill be changing my service.

Don't know exactly what they think they are going to accomplish by doing such things, but DISH lost me as a customer. I put up an antenna. Also put a Roku on my TV. Subscribed to Netflix, Hulu, and CBS all-access. All 3 for less than what DISH was costing me.

Dish is owned by its builder who is known in the industry as a wild cat... Its his way or the highway. He has constantly negotiated hard, and has suspended or dropped stations for months, or even years to try to get a favorable contract.

As streaming is coming on line the fight for subscribers has increased. Streamers use the internet so they have NO large costs for broadcasting as the others do. Providers of shows have given raises every year to the stars to a point the industry is collapsing down on itself due to increased content cost.

Tv stations insist that the cable tv/satellite companies carry its channel, BUT also carry all of its junk channels that no one watches but the tv stations get to sell advertising ((lawsuits and vacuum cleaners)) on the junk channels as well.

Due to more channels advertising costs are dropping on some, and going off the charts on others.

AND>...... its all coming to a point of no return.

The old model had either one cable company or an antenna market. The new model has 10 choices or more now, if you have internet.

Now who are you going to blame???


Time for movie starts to live like the rest of us.

I sure wish they would drop Big Ten Network around here, my understanding is that single channel costs $2 a month for all of us, and has very very worthless programming on it. There are a very few high dollar people that are rabid for it, the rest of us get to pay for watching football games by schools we don?t even know this time of year? Ridiculous.

Tv is in quite a bad spot right now.

Broadcasting over the air costs money.

If they can negotiate hard, even the local channels make some money being on cable or sat.

There is an incentive for them to just stop transmitting over the air, and go to subscription only.

Then throw in internet feeds, the wild new frontier of tv. The younger generations especially are turning to this, some are free, some are subscription, everything is jisjointed and not scheduled. Fairly easy to find more than you want for free watching to occupy your time.

Everyone wants more bandwidth for cell phone data, and so broadcast tv is losing. Ore and more space to broadcast in. They sell off the freed up space to sell to internet/ cell companies.

The writing is kind of on the wall, antenna broadcast tv is fading away.

The big players of major stations and major cable and sat companies are fighting over a smaller piece of pie to send more costly signals to.

We the viewers are just an asset to haggle over, we don?t really count for anything.

Paul

Antenna tv for me, have never had any satellite or cable system. When antenna tv goes away, maybe I'll catch some stuff on the computer, maybe I'll listen to the radio or maybe read a book or magazine. It all depends on how bad they want me to see their advertising. I can live with out them, but can they live without us. gobble

The big gripe with cable and satellite TV is that you have to pay for over 100 channels that you will never even look at to get the handful that you want. The future of TV is streaming. you can watch what you want when you want and have all of the same benefits as if it were a DVD. you can rewind it, look at it multiple times, pause it to get a snack, or even take a potty break without missing anything.

Oh, I almost forgot. No commercials! I don't have to look at folks acting stupid while using the competitor's product, then see the big fake grin when they use the advertiser's product. And all of that for something I do not want and will not buy.

Fox News was out for awhile a couple of weeks ago. Fox Business was still alive and well and carried a lot of stories that would have been more news related than business. All is fine now. I like the new programming.