Yes, you always make more money when you force the cable/satellite companies to pay for 100% of the subscribers when in reality the channel has a much narrower viewer base. Why is it that the folks at YES claim that they would have to set a $10 a month a la carte rate on the channel and they would "only" charge Dish about $2 a subscriber if it were part of a package? Could it be that only 20% of the total viewer base is even interested in the channel? Hmmmmm....
Yes every other RSN is in a package right now. So what? The Yankees were on an existing RSN and they were available on every outlet. It was the Yankees' decision to give that up and form their own channel and try to force themselves onto channel line ups charging as much or more than the existing channel. ALL the outlets balked at first! Remember? After a short while some caved to the very boisterous 20% of subscribers. For a while there were only two. Even threatened with local moronic law makers threatening passing a law to force Cablevision to carry the channel, they still resisted for some time. And now Dish stands alone in resisting blackmail.
The road to a la carte has to start some where and there has to be a reason to start the fight. This is as good a reason as there is. Still remember it is YES's choice not to be offered at all on Dish. Not Dish's. No matter how it's spun, the door was opened and the offer as fair as can be in any reasonable person's mind. "You set the price. You keep all the money raised. We absorb the uplink, administrative, marketing and lost opportunity cost." YES decided they want to make MORE money that they would make standing on their own two feet. SCREW THAT!
See ya
Tony <---wishes Dish could do that with all RSNs!
