Its humorous blaming Dish, its truly the opposite approach round. These leisure conglomerates negotiate with the cable/sat firms, however they by no means do it per channel, its at all times their total package deal, even when nobody watches some channels.
One stat I noticed again earlier than I lower the cable a decade in the past was that solely 4% of cable subs truly watch sport channels like ESPN however the associated fee was about 8% of everybody’s invoice, even when they do not watch them.
To make it worse the agreements normally pressure the distribution firms to make them a part of the default tier to allow them to’t create a Sports activities package deal to scale back the associated fee for everybody else and simply make people who need it pay.
So actually, blame Disney, that is what you get if you enable leisure firms to dictate the market as a substitute of customers.
