Go Charlie!!!
I must disagree. I have and am paying subscriptions for 3 satellite receivers, I have had excellent quality programming for over 6 years. One could easily say that I am among their oldest customers. When I purchased Americans Top 150 programming package, then paid extra for local stations, I paid for these stations. I recently took advantage of an offer to upgrade one of my receivers, but now must stay with them for a year or pay them for the upgrade. This was fine, but now THEY have changed the deal.
So, without warning they dropped the Comedy channel which I did watch, and a few channels I didn't watch. But the point is, they dropped channels from an advertised package without recourse and redress. What is to stop them from dropping all of FOX, Discovery, History, Biography, A&E and various local stations with the same lack of warning or consideration they gave me?
DirectTV had no problem increasing the rates; and as the rates have been flat for over 6 years, I don't have a problem with that. But, to increase the rates, and the very next month to drop channel coverage is inexcusable.