Posted on 07/24/2016 9:55:50 AM PDT by rktman
Dish Network Corp. lost a record number of TV subscribers in the second quarter as programming blackouts and price increases drove customers to seek cheaper online alternatives, reviving industrywide concerns about “cord-cutting.”
Dish shed 281,000 pay-TV customers in the quarter, compared with a loss of 81,000 a year earlier, according to a statement from the Englewood, Colorado-based company Thursday. That marks the biggest loss of TV subscribers in any quarter. The rate of monthly customer defections, or churn, rose to 1.96 percent from 1.71 percent a year earlier, Dish said in a separate filing.
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Couple weeks before football season starts up and NFL network and Red Zone is gone. Real, mega-stupid.
I have ATT as well, but my DSL is pretty good, so I can stream HD with my ROKU. Cutting the cable/satellite cord may happen for me eventually.
Yep. I had been considering dumping Dish with each price increase over the last year or two. Finally pulled the trigger a couple months back. Now its Netflix and Amazon Prime. Even with renting/buying some content on Amazon, we come out ahead.
The latest price hike and how little we were watching anymore tipped the balance.
Considering that Google, the biggest search engine of all time, owns Youtube, one would think they could develop a more user-friendly approach to Youtube.
Sounds like you're trying to utilize Youtube as though it is a Netflix or other series and film oriented service. That isn't primarily what it is. I for one and I presume a lot of other users (billions) who access Utube for its random short videos, mostly amateur produced, don't want the UI changed significantly.
We keep cable TV for the wife’s cooking and “Runway” shows. Me, it’s only “Last of the Summer Wine” and “Death in Paradise” - everything else is YouTube - you name it, they got it - covers the whole spectrum.
Runway shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP1uvc0KdQU
Last of the Summer Wine
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=last+of+the+summer+wine+full+episodes
Death in Paradise
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+in+paradise+full+episodes
“Government wouldn’t let them merge with Direct tv. What’s next?”
Microsoft buys Dish as Gates toys with the idea of becoming an avant garde film director?
For those that can get cable and not restricted to satellite.
I use Earthlink which uses Time Warner cable. First 6 months are about $30 then $42 after that.
I have a ROKU 3 box http://www.roku.com and also subscribe to Netflix and Amazon prime (I do most of my shopping thru them). Each are about $9 a month. I have many “channels” from ROKU website downloaded and have all kinds of movies and old tv shows.
I use a MOHU tv antenna to get the free over the air tv channels. http://www.tcguide.com
I also subscribe to Sling TV http://www.sling.com which is $25 a month. It includes all the cable channels I had before (Time Warner charged $141.88) and then some like 4 EPIX channels where I watched a James Bond film called Spectre last night (not bad).
I pay less then half of when I had cable and get more variety of shows to watch.
People that haven’t yet discovered the wonders of K-Drama don’t know what they’re missing.
For about $5 a month, at either dramafever.com or viki.com you have access to hundreds of shows from romantic comedies, historical and family style dramas commercial free and in HD. Or, you can watch for free with commercials.
If you have a subscription to either Netflix or Hulu, they’re also available there, all subtitled in English.
Production values rival anything produced in hollywood. Rather than “seasonal” programming, series are a set number of episodes, usually 16, but some of the more involved storylines run 50 episodes or more. Very rarely a series will have the scheduled number of episodes reduced because of low ratings, but a series will never be canceled without a conclusion to the story.
You will not see nudity, sexual situations or homo anything on a K-Drama. They are everything current American television is not.
Before I tried it, I thought I could never get used to watching anything with subtitles but I got accustomed to it very easily and I’m to the point now where TV without subtitles feels strange.
If you hate what Hollywood and the Lefties behind it are doing to America, stop funding them and try something new, where the people aren’t trying to destroy the family and social order. K-Dramas fit the bill.
Well there was a homo character in "Secret Garden", but you never saw him acting on it.
I cut the cord one month ago. I used to have ATT Uverse. I am saving some money to pay down debt. I would have done it sooner, but I was locked in a contract.
It is okay so far. Still adjusting.
I have never subscribed to cable, ever. I haven’t watched television since the mid-late Nineties.
I do watch a lot of movies, and youtube, though.
When my wife and I go to a hotel, they have cable usually, and we watch it...for a while, until we look at each other and say “People PAY for this? What a bunch of crap.”
I replaced my old aerial with a digital antenna. Now, instead of having the huge, v-shaped arrow, I have a small rectangle...:)
Wow, you described us exactly, right down to the cable TV in the hotel.
TV Guide
https://www.tvguide.com
but I want to get rid of our cable if possible...we pay over $210 a month for internet, phone, and cable....too much when we don't watch very many shows on tv....what we do watch are reruns...
Cut the cord. Don’t play their game. There is plenty to watch for free on the internet.
what do I need to do to use Roku and what does it get me?
My wife and I both think it is a wasteland. The difference is, she watches network television, and I cannot stomach it.
but does it get sunday night and monday night football?
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