2015 Dish Price Increase

[truckracer]

its inevitable

 

[Tampa8]

My favorite part about Dish is the 722K with sling and ext HD plus 2 OTA tuners.

The programming is OK, but I generally only watch Science, Discovery, History channels and CNBC. Never watch CNN so I didn't miss it when it went black. I tune into FoxB at times but since Dish took it down, I fell they should give me a refund. Instead, they want to charge me an increase for taking programming away.

Then I see this CEO, Joe Clayton, come on and over and over tell me FOX hacked into Dish and took the channel down? Is he serious? How insulting! Fox never took that channel down, Dish took their own channel down that carried Fox News and Fox Business. If Fox somehow did break into Dish's uplink center and sabotage the channels, taking their programming off without Dish's permission, then let Dish complain to the FCC and FBI. The truth is, and Clayton knows this, Dish pulled the channel off to coerce Fox into negotiating a lower cost deal for their programming. I recall Charlie never lied about these negotiations. He always told us like it was, that there was a dispute on price and Dish and he wanted the better fees to keep a lower subscription rate.

I suspect Joe Clayton can't say the truth, because the timing of the Fox negotiation is right when he wants to raise our rates. Therefore he lies to use claiming Fox came in and shut the channels down.
This way, regardless of how the dispute is settled, and I'm sure it will be settled, Joe Clayton can have his big fat rate increase and when people say anything he can blame Fox, CNN and the other provider networks for the increase.

Fact is, Dish Network is doing very well as a profitable company. In the last 1.5 years the company's stock is up 110% Does Dish really need the rate increase? I don't think so. They will impose it only because the competition is just a bit more expensive and they know it.

A good sign that a company is considerate of it's customers and it's share holders is, the company doesn't lie to it's customers, and returns some of it's earnings to it's shareholders.

When Charlie was CEO, Dish paid a quarterly dividend and had an annual special dividend as well. When this CEO, Joe Clayton took over, we see the dividend cut to zero! Rate increases on customers backed by outright lies such as this one on TV running right now, frequent popular channel blackouts and then blaming the cause on the vendor. Yet, profits were up despite a loss of 12,000 subscribers per month as reported by one news service during the last quarter.

I wish I could say nice joke but I fear you are serious.
Just addressing two things, by law DISH must take the channels off when out of contract and the programmer tells them to. I'm still hoping I'm missing the joke in your posts somehow.

Second the value of stock is not directly related to what a company can charge for services. In fact many times stocks rise on speculation or world events even though a company may not at the time be showing much profit. In the case of DISH the fact that they are making inroads to other forms of business such as online and owning valuable cellular frequencies has an effect on the value of the stock.

 

[Slamminc11]

surprised mitchflorida isn't ranting again considering DTV is raising their rates $4-7 in February...

 

[ChadT41]

Is there an official release of DTV price increases yet? I guess I'd be better off askign that on the DTV forum.

 

[thomasjk]

Yes there is http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/thr...nges-now-confirmed.345234/page-2#post-3591642

 

[ChadT41]

I just looked over it. Thanks for the link though!!!

 

[satjay]

kind of interesting though how some things are going up in odd numbers like 2.19 for rsn

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The one thing I find surprising about the DIRECTV increase is the additional outlets are going up 50 cents per extra outlet. The rest of it seems to be the norm. (well except for the sports prices)

 

[Scherrman]

The one thing I find surprising about the DIRECTV increase is the additional outlets are going up 50 cents per extra outlet. The rest of it seems to be the norm. (well except for the sports prices)

Just another "charge because we can fee increase!"

 

[Tampa8]

So if DISH has given all the increases for the year I will be saving even more. Going from about $180 in savings a year to just shy of $200 savings. I see there are both higher RSN fees and additional areas now have RSN fees with Direct. In Ct where I am from $3 surcharge to $3.63 and in Fl it would be a new surcharge of $2.17 And Direct is apparently raising receiver fees. (50 cents)
I encourage people especially with VIP receivers to compare what they will be paying with DISH to what it would be with Direct TV.
As I said before all of it is too high, but DISH indeed is considerably less in many cases.

Thank-you Charlie for taking a hard stance on RSN's and prices in general.

And we now know why NY subscribers with no RSN's are paying the same package prices with DISH as other subscribers. DISH and Direct have very similar package prices, in fact DISH is just slightly less generally. HOWEVER Direct Tv has a surcharge to all those subscribers of $5.50.

 

[ChadT41]

I compared what I have now, on the DTV website, and after the first 12 months, I would be paying about $12-15 more with DTV after these increases take place

 

[whitewolf8214]

I compared what I have now, on the DTV website, and after the first 12 months, I would be paying about $12-15 more with DTV after these increases take place

Call up DirecTV and see what specials (Discounts] they have to take off your bill I do it all the time and I usually save 40- 60 dollars off my bill and I have Premier Pack!! !

 

[ChadT41]

Why would I do that when I am $12-15 cheaper on dish without promos?

 

[whitewolf8214]

Why would I do that when I am $12-15 cheaper on dish without promos?

I was a thought I was giving you!!

 

[navychop]

So if DISH has given all the increases for the year I will be saving even more. Going from about $180 in savings a year to just shy of $200 savings. I see there are both higher RSN fees and additional areas now have RSN fees with Direct. In Ct where I am from $3 surcharge to $3.63 and in Fl it would be a new surcharge of $2.17 And Direct is apparently raising receiver fees. (50 cents)
I encourage people especially with VIP receivers to compare what they will be paying with DISH to what it would be with Direct TV.
As I said before all of it is too high, but DISH indeed is considerably less in many cases.

Thank-you Charlie for taking a hard stance on RSN's and prices in general.

And we now know why NY subscribers with no RSN's are paying the same package prices with DISH as other subscribers. DISH and Direct have very similar package prices, in fact DISH is just slightly less generally. HOWEVER Direct Tv has a surcharge to all those subscribers of $5.50.

You made me think to follow you, and to understand about DTV RSNs. I have no interest in sports.

 

[Tampa8]

Call up DirecTV and see what specials (Discounts] they have to take off your bill I do it all the time and I usually save 40- 60 dollars off my bill and I have Premier Pack!! !

No doubt many could get that, however I too can get occasional discounts with DISH on top of paying $200 less than Direct.

 

[truckracer]

Soon maybe we can take an equity loan against our properties to fun subscription tv. The neighbors would be saying "Look....he is rich, has subscription tv".

 

[Tampa8]

 

[stardust3]

Can anyone confirm (Attn Dirt) if there is any change to the welcome pack?

 

[ncted]

Yes, but their price blows Dish out of the water. Remember, most people don't look at the final bill.

Until they do. TWC charges something like $25/month for a (2-tuner) DVR. Their whole home setup costs almost $50 for a DVR and 1 client. And it is still only 2-tuners! They're supposed to be coming out with something better soon, but I expect it will cost even more.