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Not sure what Charlie is thinking not paying HBO and Cinamax.
It not like these premium channels are locals.
Won't most subscribes jump ship and move to another provider? Can't really see Charlie wining this one. So I guess they are OK losing subscribers. Even if Dish has the best price probably 25% of their sub could care less about cost and just want good channels.
What is Charlie thinking?
Charlie has held customers hostage before.
This time is a little different as the parent company who owns Direc tv now owns those networks and they have raised the prices on new contracts....I'm sure in an effort to decrease competition. It's actually bs on both parts. It's always the customers who get screwed in the end.
El Rey has just left dish also.Who's next?
It's not DTV that has caused the HBO and Cinamax drop out on Dish, but AT&T who owns DTV and HBO/Cinamax, when AT&T acquired DTV a few years ago Dish complained about it to the FCC, saying it was the start of a monopoly, as AT&T owns phone lines, cable company's, some TV stations and then would own a very large DBS satellite system, this is the start of a monopoly.
So instead of just raising the cost of service, and renewing the contracts they dropped all HBO and Cinamax service to Dish, this hoping Dish's customers would jump ship and go to DTV for those channels, and hopefully in time cause Dish to go out of business due to loss of revenue, thus leaving them will all the satellite coverage for the US.
Not much Dish can do about this, the only thing that may help is to complain to the FCC about it if you are a Dish subscriber, I have as I think this is totally unfair to Dish customers.
Maybe dish needs to buy showtime startz or more channels and to the same to at&t.I bet this is in the works.
Wow I am glad I made this post. I had no idea what was going on with the ownership and such. I guess I read about a few years ago but did not put 2+2 together.
It does seem like dik is being treated unfairly. I thought it was Charlie being cheap again LOL.
I'm not down south so thanks for all the info from all of you in this post
What is El Rey, where is it on the dial?Quote:
Originally Posted by runamok
Terryl,
Are you saying AT&T will not provide the service to Dik? This can't be correct, especially in the USA you have good protection against that I thought. Can't Charlie sue Dave... I mean AT&T then?
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Originally Posted by Terryl
When negotiating a new contract or renewing one for providing programming, the provider/owner of that programming can dump or not to renew the contract of whomever he/she/it wants.
AT&T didn't like Dish for commenting about the merger or acquisition of DTV, so they just waited out the end of the contract for providing that programming to Dish and told Dish to go kick rocks.
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Originally Posted by jets
It was on channel 253 now a second syfy channel has it.It showed some old tv series.
Wow I din't think it was possible that one company in the same businesses could withhold services from another. Up here they made the big telco's share their fiber lines with the cable companies, of coarse at reasonable market value.
I just find it wrong or monopolistic for AT&T to do that, it upsets the competition.
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Here is one read I found on it a The LA Times.
HTML Code:http://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-dish-hbo-att-fee-dispute-20181101-story.html
El Rey was the only channel that covered Baja races for Canadians...great.
thank goodness for iptv ;)
Bad news for a limping IKS with less channels all the time and now even less i see what ever is left jumping ship to IPTV i see a lot of business coming their way.:yeaah:
Bump this thread.
So is that there all there is to this story, AT&T just cuts dik off (LOL). And a large percentage of American users don't get HBO anymore.
Anyone know if Dik is suing or in the courts on this? Can some friends from the south shed some light on the situation?
Dish is the one blacking out HBOQuote:
Originally Posted by jets
Code:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-07/dish-s-ergen-sends-message-to-tv-industry-with-blackout-of-hbo
well the bad thing about IPTV for us satellite internet user's like me. is i only get 40 gig a mouth an pay120.00 a mouth an it's slow sure they say 25mbps but it don't. IKS work's better for us that half to have sat internet because we live in royal area an can not get high speed internet. charlie should an i'm ASKING why don't he take FOXMOVIE channle's on sat 72E an move them to 119/110 that would give people something to watch. in the place of HBO AN CIMAX because some people are leaving him. like the time DVT took off the weather channle everyone went to dish an it was booming for dish. an i like FOXMOVIE NETWORK better movie's that's gust me. so what i go out turn the dish one way to another naww kidding, i have one for it but i have before. but now he's turn it MPEG4 HD so now my old sonicview 360 can't get it. an my jynxbox don't have the right MAPPING for that sat so i'm hoping that he will move it over.
When you first wrote this post I had doubts... now not so much :)
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