Dish Network revenue misses on pay-TV subscriber losses

Yahoo - Reuters ^ | April 20 , 2016 | Supantha Mukherjee

[Marko413]

We started saving over $80/month by ditching our cable tv and just going with Internet + Netflix and local antennae channels. That’s $960/year to be spared the convenience of live Cable TV. After the first few months, we stopped missing seeing tv episodes when they are first released. We now prefer waiting for the whole season on Netflix where we can binge watch it over a weekend or week with no commercials. Even if we had to see it earlier, there are “options” on the interwebs.

[george76]

Did Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen force his employees to make political contributions to Democratic candidates?

That’s the allegation from Cause of Action, a conservative non-profit group which has filed a complaint against Dish and Ergen with the Federal Election Commission.

The Washington Times reports that Cause of Action charges that Ergen threatened to fire employees if they didn’t contribute to certain Democratic candidates.

http://www.tvpredictions.com/ergen122112.htm

[John W]

That’s what I thought.

[Grams A]

but wife likes watching reality shows.”

Just take her to any major city and let her sit on any corner and watch what’s going on around her. It’s free and reality.

[Buckeye McFrog]

"but wife likes watching reality shows.”

Then she'll love the new online series that I've put on Kickstarter for funds to produce.

Tiny House Hoarders

[Grams A]

Need to respond to wetgundog. Your response is hilarious though!

[publius911]

Pay more, get less. I wonder if this could possibly have any connection to more and more people Ditching the Dish?

I am scheduled to do just that today...

Dumping Comcast cable TV, too.

Did you know that at Comcast, "bundling" with most basic SD cable TV allows us to pay $20 less than for internet only?

Works for me!

[publius911]

AlJazeera America pulled the plug last week.
They literally had a 0.001% rating.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

And Al Bore is still laughing all the way to the bank.