In regards to DISH Network & LIN Media
In case some aren’t aware, there is a contract fight ongoing between LIN Media and DISH Network for local channels in certain markets. It’s stupid and I am growing tired of the babies and whiners always throwing tantrums. It’s become a bit too vogue these days for people to take their toys and run home to hide instead of facing problems head on. Here’s the email I sent to LIN Media:
I am very irritated with media companies such as yours constantly battling with Satellite providers like DISH Network. It’s no better than the idiotic union thuggery that is occurring in Wisconsin and other places across the country. You should be happy that you are able to extort any money from companies such as DISH and DirectTV, much less always wanting more at contract time.
Frankly, in this day and age, we are able to get much of our programming free on the Internet through sources both legal and quasi-legal. I suspect that more people will begin to seek out these alternatives to constantly rising Satellite and Cable bills that are caused by companies like yours always wanting more in the name of “fair market value”, which is just a euphemism for ever-increasing greed.
Much of the programming on network stations isn’t worth watching with the exception of scripted crime and legal dramas. Even those are beginning to become a bit much with the constant spin-offs. Reality television is dead, overdone and boring…but it dominates your network airwaves because it’s cheap to produce and easy to feed to the fools who don’t know any better.
Start creating more original programming and maybe we, the consumers, will start seeing the need to supply you with more “fair market value”.
and here is the comment I posted on DISH Network’s Facebook Fan Page:
Continue taking your stand, DISH. LIN shouldn’t charge for what they air for free everywhere else. You might remind them that if we all decided to unsubscribe and switch to watching and downloading our shows for free (which I am seriously considering) they would get NOTHING. Every show is available for free on the Internet and there will never be anything they can do to stop it. Also, stop paying for crap like OWN and passing the additional fees onto your customers. Channels like that should be optional-subscriber-based like HBO & Starz. If people want it, let them pay for it…not those of us who don’t want it.
I seriously hope for a day that everyone stops paying their cable and satellite bills and starts watching television online. Screw the assmops who keep playing with our money! If you want to read the propaganda from both sides, see the links below:
http://www.fairsatellite.com
http://www.linmedia.com/attention-dish-network-subscribers/
