Yes, me and dish went seperate ways. It has nothing to do with the company but the specific management within my call center. That situation has since been rectified, including new Hr, new GM, and new management all around.
As far as when I stand up for dish, it's because when I do, it's when something stupid is being said. I will agree with complaints about dish, when it is not something that is someone just speaking from emotion. I agreed about the 222 decision, that that specific decision was dumb, from a business standpoint, but at the same time I have a feeling they have a long term plan that is for the best of ALL customers. This conversation about "dish screwing customers" is dumb as well, since channel drops is something can happen as contracts are not in place. As
@dwarren2 has clearly spelled out, this is not dish just not wanting to carry them. This is them not legally allowed to be carried. I'm not in an O&O area, but guess what, I'm still affected by showtime. You know what im going to do if it goes down. Watch something else, since I have a whole lot of other channels to watch, while I wait for it to come back. It won't be down for long if it goes down. And before everyone starts crying about CBS and their takedown, here is a little funny point. What reason should dish have to pay more, if CBS is effectively trying to bypass all the traditional TV models by releasing their own stream service? Say you are a business owner, and you are trying to sell tables. You have to bear the expenses of purchasing, shipping and insuring those tables, and still need to be able to sell them for a profit. Now the table manufacturer starts advertising out your front door, that you can skip going to the store and buy them directly from them. They'll take care of all the customers needs. Are you going to want to continue to py an increase in price for those tables, while the manufacturer is trying to cut you out anyways? No. So I do support dish in not just taking the first offer. Same with Turner. Their product has gotten consistently worse over the last few years. Dish warned them at the last renewal because of declining viewership. Yet they did nothing to improve it, and here we are again. So, please, put your emotions aside, and look at the facts.