DTV & DISHTV, Wife said she heard they are merging next week on CNBC today?

[b4pjoe]

I have no idea which equipment will prevail. It could be DTV because they have a few million more subscribers. Or maybe it will be Dish if a DTV satellite fails first. Only time will tell.....

I would guess they would keep both companies separate. It would cost a fortune to migrate users on either one to the other.

 

[KAB]

I would guess they would keep both companies separate. It would cost a fortune to migrate users on either one to the other.

Then what's the point...just availing cash to Charlie?

 

[b4pjoe]

Then what's the point...just availing cash to Charlie?

When Dish users pay their bills the money will go to DIRECTV.

 

[KAB]

When Dish users pay their bills the money will go to DIRECTV.

And we know that how? And it's still about keeping Charlie afloat.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Folks if this goes through and is approved it will be one to two years minimum before customers see any changes to anything.

A lot could change in that time.


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[charlesrshell]

Folks if this goes through and is approved it will be one to two years minimum before customers see any changes to anything.

A lot could change in that time.


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Do you think Charlie has Super Hopper 4s in the closet?

 

[LQQK]

I hope we never lose DISHTV's multi-view feature & 16 DVR recordings at one time.

 

[bookworm370]

Or will it be the other way around ?

Its a Merger, not a sale of.

Trust me, it's NEVER a merger. One buys the other, and they call it a merger. Only one can be in charge afterward.

 

[b4pjoe]

When Dish users pay their bills the money will go to DIRECTV.

And we know that how? And it's still about keeping Charlie afloat.

Well if DIRECTV owns DISH where else would the Dish subscriber payments go?

 

[telstar_1]

I would have to think that the fun went out of home satellite a long time ago for ol' Charlie.

 

[scoob83]

CRAP! This better not happen, the only way I can find to keep my prices halfway low is to switch back and forth between DirecTV and Dish every two years.

If anyone has a better approach, I'm all ears.

Just call and renew the preferred customer offer every 2 years?


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[reubenray]

Just call and renew the preferred customer offer every 2 years?


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How exactly does this work? My contract runs out in January. I have been haggling with them each time my contract is up. I already plan on going down one plan and cancelling the locals to reduce my bill.

 

[telstar_1]

How exactly does this work? My contract runs out in January. I have been haggling with them each time my contract is up. I already plan on going down one plan and cancelling the locals to reduce my bill.

The traditional tactic has been to threaten to switch providers because the other guys will install free, er, actually pay you 100s to do so, and give a big monthly discount for a year or 2. Then if the incumbent won't give enough, you go ahead & switch, usually requiring a 2 year commit. Then at the end of that 2 years or when the incumbent's deal runs out, rinse & repeat.

Needless to say, this discourages DBS loyalty and virtually dares subscribers to think about cutting them loose altogether.

 

[MikeD-C05]

I have no idea which equipment will prevail. It could be DTV because they have a few million more subscribers. Or maybe it will be Dish if a DTV satellite fails first. Only time will tell.....

I want to know what actually becomes part of the sale of DISH to Directv. Does it include the satellites themselves? Does it include the uplink centers? Does it include the satellite receivers themselves? At one time the receivers were made by Echostar. Then DISH became the name on the receivers. But Echostar made receivers for Europe too at one time I thought. I think for the foreseeable near future, both companies will still operate till they decide which receivers they will go with and which gets thrown out.

I remember back in 2002 the first time they tried to merge they had plans to download software so either companies' receiver could work with either Directv or DISH signals. They even had a big dish that had lnbs for all the western satellites like 110,119 and 101. That was before eastern arc was added in 2008. So I see a transition that will take a long time and I think many of the subs that are on the fence, will just churn rather than change out everything for a different satellite service and especially if it is higher than they are paying now. So this will lead to more churn and losses.

 

[MikeD-C05]

Trust me, it's NEVER a merger. One buys the other, and they call it a merger. Only one can be in charge afterward.

That would be TPG then. They run Directv so I would think they would run DISH too.

 

[SandFarmer]

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