Looks like Dish May drop FX networks..
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Pretty soon, all that will be left to watch will be QVC in HD 
Dish will not arbitrarily "drop" the channels. If a distribution agreement is not reached by the deadline and Disney does not agree to an extension, Dish will not legally be able to transmit the channels. FX, FXX, NatGeo, and NatGeo Wild are involved.
OH no, we can't lose The Incredible Dr. Pol on the Nat Geo Wild channel.
I mentioned this in the ACC thread. Deadline is 9pm pacific time tonight and the Dish Promise page talks about it. I am not aware of too many Disney channels being dropped by providers over the years.
As Disney acquires more content providers, I expect we'll see more contract disputes...
Disney is adding National Geographic to its upcoming Disney Plus app. I think they will also have Fox programming as well. My thinking is they would rather people go directly to them rather than use cable/satellite. We’ll see how that works.
If Disney pulls this crap, I definitely will NOT be purchasing their stupid streaming app.
Disney just about ruins everything they touch. Star Wars is the prime example of it.
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Yep, that would be my guess too. Expect to see more of it as the TV viewing methods change. From the content providers position, why share revenue with packagers when they can keep it all for themselves.
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If this keeps going, I may end up with a cheap skinny pack with Dish, so I can keep the Super Stations and Movie Pack, and pick up the rest in the streaming pack. I have been experimenting with this of late, as I added Philo. They are only $20 a month and have no sports channels and they have three channels that Dish doesn't have, Cloo, Aspire (running Julia, Room 222, and The Mod Squad), and BBC World in HD. As much as I like Dish and have been with them for over 20 years now, this constant dispute mess is getting so old. I do not blame Dish. However, as we all feel, we pay for a package of programming we want. One advantage of streaming packages. There are no contracts. If service A drops a channel with a dispute, dropping service A and picking up service B, is a few clicks on a computer.
Let’s see HBO, Cinemax, Fox Sports and now Disney.
It’s a great time to be a dish subscriber.
It’s a great time to be a dish subscriber.
There will be a breaking point for many subscribers. Already people have been dropping cable and satellite by the millions. How long will cable & satellite be able to survive? The price keeps going up as we end up with many disputes where the subscriber is always the loser. We used get a dispute every once in a while, now they are multiple and continual.
At times like this I do yoga and deep breathing exercises.Pretty soon, all that will be left to watch will be QVC in HD
Well, one reason is that when included in a package many people, like myself, pay for the package and thus pay for Disney products, even though they don't ever watch those products. If you separate Disney products out to buy separately through streaming, I would never pay for such a group and I suspect that many more will never pay for them. For now, Disney needs satellite and cable packaging to keep them profitable.
As if ATT doesn't have it's own disputes going on.
Yeah, Dish, Directv, FiOS, Charter, and so on.
The thing is this just continues to reinforce how little I watch on any of these channels (aside from HBO which I get separately and have been able to for some time). Feels like we are reaching an end-game for the traditional linear TV services pretty soon. While I have not been personally affected by any of the recent disputes except HBO, it has caused me to explore my options, and I have reached the conclusion that, as much as I might like the Hopper experience and Dish's hard-ball negotiation tactics, the linear TV model is well and truly borked due to poor management on the part of the content providers, and I cannot continue to justify the amount I spend to have that model when I so rarely use it any more.
The only things that need to be live are sports, breaking news, and a few other random things. Everything else can be on-demand. If that is the case, we don't need hundreds of channels, which are owned by a small handful of companies, taking up bandwidth for live broadcasts of content with minimal revenue, when the vast majority of that content could be on-demand. The only reason we have all those channels with shows that have tiny ratings is so industry execs can tell Wall Street they are incrementally increasing revenue when in actuality they are just slicing up a shrinking audience into smaller and smaller pieces. Well, the day of reckoning is coming for those shows/channels/networks, it is clear.
The only problem is the millions who don't have another way to get the content they currently get from Dish/DirecTV because no one wants to sell them a fat internet pipe to get the content another way. The FCC can barely manage to bribe ISPs to run new lines to potential future customers. Those people are likely to 1. Get left out/behind of the market disruption or 2. Have to pay through the nose to keep their current service as the connected world flees to a new and changing model.
Disney ruined Star Wars ? Did you see the last 3 that Lucas did ? lol..
Of course they're going to claw their assets back to offer them exclusively, it's business!
I'll happily subscribe to Disney, the entertainment budget has lots of room without the extra receiver fees I was paying with dish.
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