I think less on Amazon, but your point is correct. But Dish is paying at least most people to do that. After that, if there even is a series after next year, most likely many will be out of contract, and if AMC is that important they can switch with no penalties. Others won't care, and got a Roku in the deal. I'm not actually defending dropping a channel, it would be better if Dish did not, of course. But I look around, carefully go through Charter Cable, Uverse, Fios, Brighthouse, and Direct TV, (all available in the places I live) and there is no question Dish is less expensive, generally better DVR's, and generally as much or more HD. Dish has other things that make a difference for me, superstations, AAD, Euronews, the list goes on. So like with any service, point is you make choices. You are less likely to lose a channel with Direct TV at least for very long. But I can't get what I want with them. (Though they would be my next choice) And they are somewhat higher. Cable is just plain more expensive and except for FIOS picture for the others I mentioned just not as good. But Fios dropped around four channels at least that I know of, I posted them earlier somewhere. So there is not a guarantee channels won't be dropped.
I do not see it as making anyone a sucker or some shrewd move, it's the business model Dish is using, they will not overpay or take channels they really do not want to pay for (already proved this with Fuse and MSG) but that means possibly losing a channel. Could they go too far? Sure, but lets reverse that, has cable (at the very least some cable) gone too far in prices by not challenging providers? Absolutely.
