Jay

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I'm torn about this one. It isn't that DISH network needs government assistance to stay in business. Rather they want the assistance to support an otherwise unfunded mandate. By the same token, it is the same unfunded mandate that the cable companies have to comply with, so fair is fair.

Jay

Exactly, and I think the biggest problem that I see with this, is that these satellite companies have had an unfair advantage all along over cable companies who have had to comply and provide local programming.

In a time when a lot of American companies are asking for assistance from the Government to keep a large workforce employed, something like this kind of rubs me the wrong way...especially after DirecTV just announced another rate hike.

cowboyup4christ

my bill keeps going up but I get no new programming with dish and they give the extras in the packages to new customers but not the ones that have been with them for years.