If Dish drops AMC, will you drop dish??
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Well I am happy to say that we didn't have to leave Dish!!They made a great offer of a free Roku XD media player.That will allow us to get the shows we would be missing via AMC and We.Some are getting credits as well but personally I think what they offered to us is more than fair.
Good to hear, while I hope one day AMC comes back, it looks like today they have had customer service on full blast
I think you might be getting bent - roku's are cheap and with dish's deal, you will have to pay for the content to watch on your roku since you didn't mention DISH will also provide you with reimbursement for some of the content fees.
You should have held out for DISH paying for some of the season DVDs of AMC and WE content for you.
I think you might be getting bent - roku's are cheap and with dish's deal, you will have to pay for the content to watch on your roku since you didn't mention DISH will also provide you with reimbursement for some of the content fees.
You should have held out for DISH paying for some of the season DVDs of AMC and WE content for you.
$80 the way I figure it.Again others got $10 off for 12 months thats great fro them.I am happy to get what we got.Not that hard to please.Who knows maybe come Sept.they might give us multisport for free if the dispute isn't resolved.
Topic title change:
"If Dish drops AMC, will you get a Roku?"
Dish dropped AMC, did you get a Roku?
Teehar got it going:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/dish-forum/287624-did-you-get-free-roku-offer.html
Maybe another poll (LMFAO):
Did dish give you enough freebies to stay?
Nothing new to say here. I considered dropping. I watch Breaking Bad, Hell on Wheels (even though it probably won't last) and Walking Dead. I talked to a pushy DirecTV salesman at Sam's Club yesterday about switching over. (He wasn't too pushy but just enough to be annoying. No I don't want to go ahead and sign a contract to "Get the ball rolling". And I have to pass a credit check to not have to pay for the receivers?) I did learn something though, He told me DISH has only 6 satellites and 2 of those are DirecTV satellites. And that DirecTV has 16 satellites. That's one of the reasons DirecTV is better than DISH. :\
So we'll stick with DISH for many reasons. I did downgrade my package this morning to America's Top 120 and drop BB@Home. That $25 / mo will make them know I mean business!
yeah I hate when them people get loose
current count of satellites each provider uses
Dish has the following satellites
61.5
Echo 15
Echo 12 (the old Voom sat)
72.7
Nimiq5 (Canadian sat that dish leases)
77
Echo 8
110
Echo 10 (locals)
Echo 11 (CONUS)
118.7
AnikF3 (leasing)
119
Echo 14
121
Echo 9 (business accounts only)
129
Ciel II (Canadian sat that dish leases)
so thats 10 satellites
Directv
95
Galaxy 3R (leases space)
99
Spaceway II
Directv 11
101
Directv 8
Directv 4s (locals)
103
Spaceway 1
Directv 10
Directv 12
110
Directv 5 (nothing on it)
119
Directv 7
So thats 10 satellites also
AT&T reaches deal with AMC news has been discussed here since yesterday morning
http://www.satelliteguys.us/t-u-verse/287581-amc-att-make-deal.html
Dish dropped AMC and stopped talking. They claim there is no chance of a quick return
DirecTV's contract with AMC is not up for some time so they were never in danger of losing the channel.
Was surprised I first read about this on an RSS from a news site late this afternoon rather than on the front page of here.
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I actually called to cancel but they offered 3 months free HBO, Cinemax and Showtime plus a $10 credit per month for a year so I could not pass that up. I am sure Dish was able to save many customers which called and was going to cancel but got enough freebies to change their mind, at least in the short term. I myself am hopeful that they take all the customer complaints to heart and work out a new agreement with AMC. I watched IFC now and then but AMC I did watch often, but can do without at least until the new season of Walking Dead is about to begin.
I feel the biggest let down was that they promised quality replacement channels. We didn't get them. I already had 2 of them in my package. I took the time to browse the HDnet movie channel and couldn't find a movie being aired that I was interested in and my God they air the same movies over and over and over. So in the end Dish saves millions of dollars while telling us they did it for us. I don't feel anyone believes that.
I was offered a free rocku player. Instead of that offer I asked for free movie channels. My wife wanted big brother after dark anyways so we got show time , hbo , starz free for 3 months and c max free for a year. I took that offer instead.
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wbrightfl said:
I see your point and can't argue it. I personally didn't see the value in IFC and We, but then my wife went to watch Bridezilla or something and freaked that We was gone. I never saw her ever watch We, but we work opposite shifts two days a week and she has a Sunday-Monday weekend, where I have a Saturday-Sunday one. So I guess she did watch it a lot.
