Dish & NY Sports

[mike123abc]

Dish's view is that they get more subs out of the NY market by not having to charge more for RSNs than they lose in the NY market. As long as they see the world that way they are not going to bother trying to work out a deal. NY may be a big market, but is only 6.48% of the US households. So, giving up 1/2 the NY potential subs is about 3% to make the other 97% lower priced. http://www.tvb.org/media/file/Nielsen_2010_2011_DMA_RANKS.pdf

Also remember NY market is very well covered by cable. So, fewer are going to be attracted to DBS/Dish. NY has a lot of strikes against it as far as Dish is concerned.

 

[Steve Mehs]

It's not just the NYC Market, it's the entire state.

 

[NotMe546]

What is the mets NY's offical golf team cause they sure can't play baseball.
Just a bunch of over paid morons.

 

[dstoffa]

Dish's view is that they get more subs out of the NY market by not having to charge more for RSNs than they lose in the NY market. As long as they see the world that way they are not going to bother trying to work out a deal.

Well, here's a question for anyone in NY...

Since Dish does not offer any RSNs, there is no reason to subscribe to AT120+. It would be flushing $5 down the toilet each month.

Now, let us say you want to subscribe to the Multi-Sports Pack. TOS reads that AT120+ or higher is required to subscribe.... So does a Dish subscriber in NY need to pay an extra $5 per month for nothing in order to receive the Multi-Sports pack?

Cheers!
-Doug

p.s. -- It was not too long ago when the Dolans (Cablevision) treated RSN's as premium channels. If you were a Mets and Rangers fan on Long Island, you were required to pay premium subscriptions to both SportsChannel (later FSN) and MSG... This mantra held true until CV agreed to take YES on the standard tier. Then all RSN went on the standard tier.

 

[Mr Tony]

Since Dish does not offer any RSNs, there is no reason to subscribe to AT120+. It would be flushing $5 down the toilet each month.

Now, let us say you want to subscribe to the Multi-Sports Pack. TOS reads that AT120+ or higher is required to subscribe.... So does a Dish subscriber in NY need to pay an extra $5 per month for nothing in order to receive the Multi-Sports pack?

yep. Philly is the same way

 

[AntiMoz]

So you are able to get the Sabres games in Digital Qam on the $12 QAM?

What channel do they map the HD feed to for the Sabres games?

 

[dwarren2]

Well, it looks like Dish isn't the only one having disputes with MSG. Scrolling banner across the bottom of tonight's Sabres game thatif you subscribe to TW, you may not be able to watch Sabres, etc after Jan 1. I can see the repercussions if TW looses Sabres games in WNY.

 

[RonMort046]

Directv does not want to get rid of YES. I believe they signed multi-year contracts with YES, SNY, and MSG. It is on the talking stages that DTV may possibly develop a package that excludes sports channels and their costs. That appeals to a minority of the DTV subscribers. Most of the DTV subscribers that I know are interested in sports.