I wonder how many customers like myself they may miss out on because they don't have it?
Obviously they're banking on this hurting AMC much more than it hurts them...and obviously they're probably going to be correct.
But it would be nice to see enough Dish customers tell them to stick it that they're forced to cave to the pressure. I've been very adamant about giving Dish the boot when my contract expires in January but I'm having to question whether it's worth it. As much as I dislike Dish, I can't really justify paying the extra monthly subscription fees to switch to DirecTV. $30/mo. extra is a little much for me.
On a different note, I wonder what this little dispute will mean for AMC's future if there is no deal worked out with Dish? I read somewhere that the dispute was over AMC wanting to increase its fee from $0.25 per subscriber per month to $0.75 per subscriber per month. Dish has 14 million subscribers. Unless I suck at basic math (I do actually, but anyway...), that's $3.5 million per month in revenue that AMC has lost. They're producing a ton of original programming these days and have employed a pretty good team of producers, writers, actors, etc., which eats up a lot of operating capital. I wonder if their productions going forward are going to start to suffer because of that loss of revenue?
