Posted on 04/20/2016 5:33:14 AM PDT by george76
U.S. satellite TV provider Dish Network Corp reported quarterly revenue below analysts' estimates as it lost more subscribers than expected in its core pay-TV business.
The company lost 23,000 net pay-TV subscribers in the quarter, more than the analysts' average estimate of a loss of 13,100 customers..
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Dish, which is grappling with subscriber losses like other pay-TV providers, has been increasing rates
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
“Average revenue per user in the company’s pay-TV business rose to $87.94 from $85.73”
Pay more, get less.
I wonder if this could possibly have any connection to more and more people Ditching the Dish?
Who needs to support 300 channels of schlock?
And be insulted by the political hacks your provider supports, to boot.
At least that's how it is with Comcast.
Hopefully, Comcast will not be far behind in losing customers. Customer Service sucks big time and subscriber fees keep escalating.
I would get rid of TV altogether if it was up to me, but wife likes watching reality shows.
Roku + PlayOn is all that is needed.
We keep it for sports right now. But I am looking at changing jobs, and Dish might not make the move with me.
My TV life is better since I ditched the dish. Netflix for episodic TV and movies. Over the air for the rest. For news commentary, I get NewMax over the air.
TV life is pretty good. And the money saved buys more Motorcycle Stuff and ammunition.
Like your priorities!!!
Satellite TV and radio have the wrong business model IMO.
Both should have a large array of channels that anyone can watch for free.
Have some premium channels offered up at fair à la carte rates.
Dish has too many very expensive sats in the Clark belt IMO.
Too many channels meant they needed all those birds.
Nobody watches many of those channels.
Revenue should come from businesses that want their channels carried. Either pay money or give Dish ad spots during the day that they can sell...or both.
More revenue from the premium channels.
Have an will of iron and NEVER pay anyone to be allowed to carry their channel... no more paying FOX..etc With a free to the user model if a network wants anyone to see them they will pay to be on the sat.
Having fewer satellites means much less overhead costs... with such a model the free to users plan would be profitable IMO and nearly EVERYONE would have a little dish on their roof. Dish would own the TV ad business, to be seen you would have to go to Dish and pay.
To watch just stick up a little dish from WalMart or wherever.
we told one of these companies to disconnect us; we could no longer afford the cost and had found streaming programming.
they immediately reduced the cost from eighty some dollars to twenty.
i felt like Trump!
The Billionaire CEO of Dish is a big time Democrat .
Dish Network could save itself probably millions of dollars if only it would quit spamming America with unwanted mail. There’s literally not a day at our house when we don’t get junk mail from Dish Network, oftentimes sneakily sent in unmarked envelopes (like greeting cards). There is no way to end it and the waste of paper and postage has to be costly given the astronomical number of people receiving this unwanted junk mail that is impossible to get rid of.
Yep, Charlie is a dyed in the wool democrat and a mean, vindictive one at that. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, losing customers that is.
Giving up cable a few years ago was one of the best things I ever did. Never expected it to be, but it was!
There is a world of talk and music on internet radio, there are great books to read, and when you want TV it is always “must see tv” because it is a DVD of your purchase or an online show you chose.
I had no idea that guy was a Dem.
But it was obvious when his response to a drop in subscribers was to raise the price.
He must have run an urban transit system someplace in this country.
That’s interesting ... Charlie Ergen used to be a Republican. When did he switch?
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