DIRECTV & Dish Network Raising Prices in February
I read the following on Multichannel News this morning:
Like its satellite rival Dish Network, DirecTV is raisings prices on some of its program offerings this year.
I’m sure no consumer likes to hear this.
According to www.satelliteguys.us and Scott Greczkowski, who writes a blog for Multichannel News, the nation’s largest direct-broadcastsatellite provider will raise the rates for a variety of its packages, such as Choice and Plus HD DVR, by $3 a month effective Feb. 27.
Three dollars a month isn’t bad, really. $36 per year…
DirecTV Thursday confirmed the rate increase, saying it will average about 4%.
Earlier this month, Dish Network announced it was freezing the price for its DishDVR Advantage offer until February 2009, but raising the rates on other popular packages, such as America’s Top 100 and America’s Top 200.
These are obviously their most popular and competitive packages, so I’m sure the cost increase was unavoidable.
Overall, the Dish Network price increase average out to about 8%, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. Dish Network said customers who subscriber to non-DVR, a la carte packages would see an increase of about 3%.
Who doesn’t get DVR anymore? Seriously, they’re missing out!
“We’ve frozen prices on some of our most popular packages,” Dish Network spokesman Kathie Gonzalez said. “Unfortunately, we cannot offset the unavoidable costs of increased television programming fees, which were more than 5% in 2007.”
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Andrew posted: 07 Feb at 3:47 pm
It is an unfortunate fact that all TV service providers do have to go through price increases as their costs go up. I am an employee and subscriber to DISH Network and while we’re not immune to it either; I am thankful and proud to say that DISH goes to great effort to keep our prices as low as possible. And the results show it too, if you compare similar programming packages with similar equipment between DISH and DirecTV you will find DISH is consistently less costly (usually by a significant margin). If anyone is interested in looking for a new provider and cost is an issue DISH is certainly worth a close look.