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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Directv sucks too, but Dish is megasuck. TV in general is a bunch of unwatachable PC drivel. People are opting out of paying for it.
Government wouldn’t let them merge with Direct tv. What’s next?
DirecTV is great. Don’t confuse the content with the carrier.
A lot of us got tired of Dish blocking main channels, adding dozens of non English channels and upping the price with less viewing for us.
We bailed about 5 years ago. Suddenly, we heard from Dish trying to shame us by phone and email to reup several times a day.
If you are a night owl (or insomniac) and you have Dish, you get to watch...infomercials late at night. Your favorite channels are not available.
I can’t remember the last time we turned on the TV. YouTube has become the family’s favorite channel.
Yep, I agree.
Just in general, I think the TV shows of yesteryear were better written, and didn’t strive to make so many political statements, such as how so many shows nowadays push homosexuality.
And apart from political statements, I get the impression that sitcoms have been dumbed down. We see people come out with some one liners, and the audience roars, and that’s supposed to be funny. If we contrast that with some comedies of the past, such as I Love Lucy, these sitcoms today just aren’t written in the same way. There’s not the same character development or any complexity to the plots.
I wonder if today’s TV writers, being young and educated since the ‘70s or ‘80s in our public schools, just don’t have the same story telling ability or imagination, as did the writers of the shows of decades ago. Just a thought.
I am in the process of getting ready to cut the cord with the money grubbing DIRECTV bastids. They charge you for anything and everything they should be supplying for free.
I essentially get basic cable with two DVRs and HD and it costs $100/month.
I recently got an Amazon Fire setup (I’m prime already) and a Starz subscription (I had Apple TV - it sucks). Thinking about Showtime and Hulu to add to Fire. Almost ready to take the No-DVR addiction plunge.
If, I do that I’ll double my monthly donation to FR and still save money.
The tv delivery providers have milked the cow as much as they could. It’s difficult to justify paying 160 a month or more for 500 when most people only regularly watch 12 or so channels.
People are cutting the cord and just going with online alternatives. I think it’s heading to the point where we will primarily get tv from Internet, and people just get the apps for the stations they want and pay a small monthly fee for the apps they want
That’s a good thing, though probably 400+ cable networks won’t survive in their current form.
i would cut the cord, except for football.
i can get all i need from apple tv, except the NFL. if that changes i am gone
Directv is in a downward spiral since idiots of AT&T bought them. I have had nothing but bill increases and snotty attitude from them. 18 yr customer and I am about to tell direct to shove it
Of course, they don't tell you that 200 of them are running the same 10 infomercials 24/7.
DirectTV is a rip off, with all the price increases for very little additional content
When we switched over to DISH recently, here came Direct begging us to come back and offering 50 bucks off every month for a year.
No thanks. DISH has been enjoyable at half the price and with a much better equipment
Oh, and ATT Wireless sucks too. Screw us once, and we are gone.
Dish - founder of the “don’t get stuck with an ugly bill” commercials.
When I signed on a year ago, my bill was about $60 a month. It jumped to $161 before I could blink.
I called and cut my package back and now it’s still $85 a month.
Cable should go to a per channel subscription basis. I don’t need 600 channels of nothing. I tend to watch only about 4 or 5 channels regularly.
But the picture quality is good.
Thanks to sites like Viki.com, for a few bucks a month I get access to KDramas, which I’ve gotten hooked on in the last year. Frankly it’s all I need. I spend an hour a night watching my latest series, and that’s it.
Just do it! Get a Roku for a better ala cart experience.
ATT internet is sea wrap.
We called and complained many times.
They kept telling us it was our computer.
Funny how well our old computer is performing on comcast...
Our house was one of those 281,000. We hardly watch TV anymore, and we realized it was just money down the drain. We haven’t missed it.
We had been considering cutting the cord for a year. What pushed me to make the call was a promo on TLC about a transgender show. I realized I was just sick of paying to support channels and programs like this.
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