They haven’t “officially” clinched yet. Their magic number is 3!
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They haven’t “officially” clinched yet. Their magic number is 3!
Yeah, it sure was.
I don’t know if that was a win or loss for Dish in the NY DMA.
Directv penetration is at an all time high, and Dish is non existent there.
I remember selling to that area when I sold dish. We would have to ask the right questions, because if you sold to a Yankees fan, you could guarantee an instant cancellation after it was installed.
Then if they can't win three more games before the end of the season then they don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
And besides that they're on ESPN tonight unless you're blacked out.Then if they can't win three more games before the end of the season then they don't deserve to be in the playoffs.
Its blacked out.
Who needs to watch their local sports team when you can watch a dozen commercials per hour of Dish being "tuned in to you" and their countless other positive affirmation commercials reminding you that you made the right choice with Dish.
Dish did decrease the price of every Latino package during the Univision dispute, only to reverse that decrease when Univision returned. For many of those packages, that meant a net increase of $0, comparing the pre-dispute price to the post-dispute price, although a few of the more popular Latino packages did have a small increase (marketed as a smaller decrease than the other packages during the dispute). Also, the price of America's Everything Pack has decreased significantly without HBO and Cinemax being included. It should work the same way for the Fox Sports Nets. Although in this case, Dish may have to abandon a national rate card and go with regional pricing, at least until the remaining RSN contracts expire.
I disagree only based on it being an absolute fail for Directv when they did that.
The alternative would be an across-the-board price cut for all packages. That would certainly be fair, since to some extent every subscriber is subsidizing the cost of these sports networks as part of the price of the basic package, whether we actually receive the channels as part of the package or not. (At least, that explanation would help explain the rapid escalation of the Welcome Pack price in recent years, despite that package not having any RSN's.)
The free market is the free market. It is neither fair nor unfair. It just is.
In the free market, the fair price would be whatever price can be negotiated between each individual subscriber and their service provider. If you do not ask for a discount, you will not get the discount. And on that, I think we both can agree.
That is correct. That is the definition of the term "negotiate."ALWAYS ask for the discount. They can ALWAYS say no
In a free market... the fair price would be what the market is willing to pay. As posted above, there is neither fair or unfair, just what the market is willing to pay. To continue charging what dish charges, is not unfair, and thus to charge something else cannot make it fair...In the free market, the fair price would be whatever price can be negotiated between each individual subscriber and their service provider. If you do not ask for a discount, you will not get the discount. And on that, I think we both can agree.
my original point is charging independent regional charges makes people uneasy. There are still people complaining about paying more for locals, and how every other company includes the charge in their package... Dish should have left it a single price with the option to drop the locals, but they probably were thinking what most of us SG guys think... that would be stupid and a lot of extra work. I think we can all agree the average consumer is stupid.
True, unfortunately. I cannot stress enough the importance of a consumer being their own best advocate. Most won't.
I think I get what you are saying. Another example of this would be how in the fine print on the Dish bill, it says that there is a taxable Receiver Lease Fee for the first receiver included in the base package price. However, there is no way to eliminate this lease fee (and reduce the base package price) by purchasing the receiver. So, even subscribers who are not leasing a receiver are still paying a lease fee. The advantage of the purchased receiver would be that in certain states, the tax on the lease fee would not apply to that portion of the bill, which can save a little bit of money. However, that would also cost more money up front by purchasing the receiver, but at least subscribers have that option.
I did that. I bought my receivers on Ebay or through local retailers and avoided the lease fee/tax.
That sounds more like a state by state tax code, which Dish wouldn’t be in control of. That would be the opposite of free market(unfortunately, I am of the few that deem most taxes as legal theft... I won’t go into detail as it is more in-line with the pit).
