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Direct does. 

I like dish better but I have to have AMC.

I have a feeling that when AMC wins about a thousand Emmys in a few weeks, Dish customers will really ratchet up the pressure to reach a deal with them.

Interestingly, Dish blames AMC; says AMC is just greedy . . . yet AMC is streaming its most popular shows free on its website. (At least that was the case with the season premieres. I assume [hope] that's gonna be the case with the rest of the season.) Dish may be truly looking out for its customers on this one, but they have definitely come off looking like a horse's patoote. And I still say that Dish's AMC fans would be more than happy to pay the extra $0.50/month AMC demanded, while the non-AMC fans wouldn't even notice such a small increase in price.

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?

Direct blamed Viacom in their most recent dispute where they lost Spike, Comedy Central, Nick, etc... and Direct won.