“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?
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.
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.
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.
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.