The impasse comes at a difficult time for Dish, as traditional cable/satellite providers continue to supplant video subscribers. Dish lost 1 million subs in 2018 – including 334,000 in the fourth quarter, which blamed it on transportation disputes between the company and HBO and Univision. HBO and sister channel Cinemax have been denied dish subscribers since October because the terms of a new distribution agreement have been spit out again. Q. I`d love to see HBO on Dish, but it`s gone for a long time. Do you think he`ll ever come back? — Ginni, Jacksonville, Florida. The other prospect for Dish is to bring HBO back if AT-T insists that it be included in the next agreement to promote at-T gymnastics networks, such as TBS, TNT and The Cartoon Network. We don`t know when the current agreement expires, but you can bet that AT-T would fight to get HBO into the new pact. Cable outages are not new in the entertainment world. Distributors and content producers are still at a dead end, which has the effect of obscuring channels for subscribers, while the two corporate monoliths settle things out. Of course, most customers might be less concerned about licensing negotiations, so the people who pay for the content are the ones who are most affected by the litigation.
And both sides are essentially hoping to use customer outrage as a bargain. According to the Wall Street Journal, the problems are the terms of a new distribution agreement – especially subscriber guarantees (the number of subscribers that distributors like Dish must meet, or they make the difference to HBO). Both companies indicate that they have given the other party the opportunity to renew the expiring contract while negotiating a new contract. Dish claims to have offered to sue under the old contract and then settle the difference between the old and new contracts once a new agreement has been reached, an offer the company claims HBO refused. Sutton says HBO has offered to pursue the old contract until a new contract is reached and Dish has declined. The sloping view of the satellite dish on the multi-storey white house — Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis AT-T`S HBO and Cinemax Premium were obscured in the dispute over a transportation contract to Dish Network and Sling-TV subscribers. The future of how consumers will have access to their favourite shows and movies from a multitude of sources could very well be determined by how disputes like this one will be resolved (if so). As eye competition becomes dirtier, could high-level absences like this become a frequent occurrence? Drop Teller and go with YouTube TV. Cut your bill in half then have more money and get HBO now. Ginni, it`s been 10 months since Dish and HBO managed to get a new horse-drawn carriage deal.
And when the old pact expired on November 1, HBO withdrew both HBO and Cinemax from Dish and Sling TV. I hope they will buy DIRECTV yard customer service is much better « During our forty plus years of operation, HBO has always been able to reach an agreement with our esteemed distributors and our services have never been dismantled or unavailable to subscribers due to the inability to reach an agreement, » HBO said in a statement. Q. We have Dish and I want to have the new HBO Max coming for free with HBO. But I can`t order HBO on Dish because it doesn`t have it. How come Dish doesn`t have HBO? — Sheila, Budd`s Creek, Maryland. Ergen added that Dish customers might find other ways to see « Game of Thrones »: « They go to their boyfriend`s house for 10 weeks, or there will be increased use of – every young person knows how to go on the Internet and get a code and watch HBO for free. » « Simple and simple, the merger for AT-T creates enormous power created on consumers, » said Andy LeCuyer, Dish Senior VP of Programming. « It appears that ATT is implementing a new strategy to unplug its recently acquired content from other distributors.