So I jus got off a discussion with A Dish Representative who I asked to remove Fox, Newsmax [View all]

[kimbutgar]

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Bannon’s channel from my package.

I wrote:
I want an alacarte package
I don’t want my money supporting these hateful channels. the last straw for me was Buffalo.
I guess I’ve got to start signing those petitions to get Dish to listen to its customers.

They wrote back
:
I can definitely understand that, and there are many customers that feel the same way. A la carte programming is one of our most requested options, and so we have been working with all of our providers behind the scenes to make something like that possible in the future. Based on the current model that we have to follow for our programming, it is taking time to finalize the terms and set up the requirements for it, but we are hopeful to be able to offer it at some point in the future, hopefully sooner rather than later.

I said: Direct TV got rid of OANN why can’t Dish or allow me to opt out and not pay for these hateful racist channels

Dish wrote back:

Depending on the circumstances, we have been known to remove channels from our programming entirely like that, yes. The most recent instance of this was the RN network for Russian News. When the situation in Ukraine began, DISH removed that station within a few days. The station itself no longer exists in America at all, but we were able to make that change first. Something like that may also occur with these other channels you've mentioned, but that is up to our legal teams to decide so that in can be done in a way that protects our customers and does not cause any legal issues with our existing contracts. Word of those changes is not made public or provided to agents until the final decision is made and confirmed, to prevent the spread of false or outdated information.

Me: Hopefully if more of us start a dialogue with our cable and satellite providers we might get them to let us do alacarte to NOT pay for these channels. I am committed to sign any petition that comes my way to not pay for any these channels on my tv packages.