HBO pulls Dish service !

[jorbill2or]

Anyone who has dish network and HBO subscription noticed this morning that you no longer have HBO! AT&T .. Directv pulled the Chanel’s from Dish

[T18skyguy]

wa8yxm wrote:
Ok folks is it DISH or AT&T/Direct????

What gets me is that the "Channel" providers (HBO. Cinimax. WXYZ-TV et.al) all charge Dish or Direct or a cable provider.. Now if the channels were indeed "Commercial Free" LIke cable was advertised as being when the first systems went up I'd say OK. since Cable and Sat make a profit on those... Your subscription pays.

But for re-broadcast Commercial OTA TV which comes complete with commercials.. Should not the stations (Which receiver money from advertisers) PAY the carrier for (DISH/DIrect/Cable) For delivery ???

Still Greed is the word folks.. It's all about seperating YOU from YOUR hard earned cash.

That is why I do not have either Dish or Direc.

X2. I do over the air plus Sling and Netflix. Got so tired of paying cable/Satellite to show me commercials.

[dedmiston]

https://www.keepmyhbo.com/dish/

[goducks10]

Dish for me. No HBO. Don't know about DTV.

[Big_Katuna]

FYI. Directv and HBO are owned by ATT.

[Larry-D]

We have Dish and it is Dish. Don't know about Direct. The Dish information is that customers won't be charged for HBO/Cinemax during the time their out.

www.mydish.com/promise

[wa8yxm]

Ok folks is it DISH or AT&T/Direct????

What gets me is that the "Channel" providers (HBO. Cinimax. WXYZ-TV et.al) all charge Dish or Direct or a cable provider.. Now if the channels were indeed "Commercial Free" LIke cable was advertised as being when the first systems went up I'd say OK. since Cable and Sat make a profit on those... Your subscription pays.

But for re-broadcast Commercial OTA TV which comes complete with commercials.. Should not the stations (Which receiver money from advertisers) PAY the carrier for (DISH/DIrect/Cable) For delivery ???

Still Greed is the word folks.. It's all about seperating YOU from YOUR hard earned cash.

That is why I do not have either Dish or Direc.

[ford_truck_guy]

BB_TX wrote:
Same old story. Contract dispute to see who will give in first. Typically back within a few days.

I don't know.... 5-6 years ago the Weather Channel and Verizon Fios had a pricing dispute... I still do not have it back and miss it during storms.

[BB_TX]

Same old story. Contract dispute to see who will give in first. Typically back within a few days.

[jorbill2or]

Dish has replaced the main hbo Chanel with a “movie” Chanel playing old movies until settled.
Normal price dispute except HBO is just this year now owned by directv / ATT .. sounds kinda fishy since hbo has never held back content ever until now

[goducks10]

Update. I don't have Dish/HBO. I clicked on the wrong HBO channel.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/hbo-goes-dark-for-first-time-in-its-history-due-to-standoff-with-di...

[K_Charles]

The topic says Dish but I think that is fake news. In the text the OP changed the story to Directv.

[goducks10]

I still have it on Dish.

[Chrisatthebeach]

Go ahead jack the prices up, the last time my Dish receiver crapped out and it took days to get a replacement I put up an outdoor antenna at home, getting 40+ channels. Between that, Amazon Prime and free streaming channels I barely turn the Dish on anymore. Will probably drop it after the holidays when the boys come home and return.
You can watch complete movies on You-Tube for free as well.

[newman_fulltime]

New contracts will be back