DISH Network Reviews

Fox News is an important part of my daily life. When I called Dish to complain they offered a five dollar discount for six months! What a joke. It is bad enough that they force me to buy 250 channel - 240 of which I never watch just to get the few that matter to me. Bring back Fox or I am gone.

I have been a customer of DISH long enough that I am no longer under contract. When I signed up with DISH, CBS and FOX were part of their channel lineup. That is not the case now, yet my monthly rate is still the same. A good percentage of what I watch was on those channels. DISH needs to find a way to get these channels back soon, or lose a long-term customer.

First CNN and now Fox News. DISH Network removes Fox News and blames Fox for it?!? That’s shameful! Unconscionable! Unethical! (Bleep) Poor for those of us where one of the primary reasons for signing up with DISH in the first place was that they had Fox News. Well, that can be remedied. There are a number of other good alternatives where you don’t have to suffer with DISH’s on-again/off-again programming, and fight with them over their 20% to 25% annual fee increases, and where their program guides at least have the correct program, and where their equipment doesn’t crash, burn and have to be replaced every year or so.

I pay $111 per month for the Dish package that gave me the channels I want to watch and MANY that I do not want to see. They have chosen to remove the channels I WANT, and give me recommendations for other channels I can watch instead. If I had wanted to see the other programs, I would have watched them instead of Fox. If FOX is not restored, I WILL be gone to Direct and will not be back--- this is your last chance to keep a LONGTIME customer.

I have been a Dish customer for 15 years and loyalty goes two ways. Why are your customers used as pawns? I resent your actions. I will switch to Direct if I don't have Fox News back by Monday. Dollars seem to be more important than customer satisfaction.

You would think that 2 corporations as FOX and DISH could get their act together and realize that blacking out the programming that we the subscribers pay for should not be interrupted as THEY cannot reach an agreement! GROW up boys! Arm wrestle each other to determine a winner.....beat on your chests.....do whatever needs to be done to get FOX back on! This is ridiculous!!!

If Dish doesn't put Fox back on the air within one week I will switch to DirecTV. Have been Dish customer for several years and pay over $150/mo. They can drop MSLSD if they want but I watch Fox News exclusively. I miss you O'Reilly and Megan!

Dish network is at it again. One of the few reasons to have their crappy service is the Fox News Network and a few movie stations. If this bad attempt on Dish isn't resolved be my next monthly payment I will drop them. An NO Glenn Beck isn't acceptable as a replacement. If I want to watch a used car salesman make an ass of himself I will go to one of my many local dealerships.

We live on an island off the coast of Maine. The only possible way to receive subscriber TV is via satellite feed. We have been satisfied Dish customers for many years. But, out of a roster of useless "info and entertainment" channels, Fox news channels are pretty much the only thing we watch. Without those options, Dish is worthless to us.

Dish pulled the plug on fox news channels, but did not see my bill go down and when I called them they did not seem to care. Well pulling the plug on them.

A year and a half ago, we chose a specific Dish program package to watch the only 2 channels we EVER watch -- Fox News and HGTV, and it costs us over $100 a month. Without warning, FOX News disappeared from Dish. I want a 50% reduction in the charges, or we will drop Dish and go with one of the several other alternatives. I don't expect an 'early termination' fee, either. If I'm not getting what I am paying for, let's call it quits. I am so tired of paying for all the ridiculous programming that we have NO interest in -- and then they remove half of the only programming we care about.

It was nearly impossible to discontinue their lousy service and then they charge us to get their own equipment back. They change their rates at their own discretion and take forever to resolve issues. We played for and mailed their boxes back a month ago and today they are still trying to bill us! Crooks and rip-offs! I now use DirecTV.

I received an automated call from Dish that stated I had to return rented equipment in a timely manner or my credit card would be charged. There should be no reason for me to return equipment! Even though I have two receivers, both work fine and I never generated a service call or a transaction that would warrant me to return anything. The first tech I spoke with said it was just a "disclaimer call" and should be disregarded. After pleading with her to look further because the message was very specific, she agreed an error had been made. I asked to be transferred to a manager in the U.S. which took 20 min. Amanda (manager in US) also agreed that an agent made an error and that she was going to forward some sort of letter or memo to the powers that be that would correct the problem. This she stated would take 72 hours. I received another automated message from Dish again looking for equipment. Called Dish again and spoke with Juana. She said the efforts Amanda put forth never went through. Great. Juana stated that she would put it through to the appropriate investigatory party for their review and action. She couldn't tell me who the party/ies or department was only that it would take until Friday before I find out if anything has been settled.

Your inability to reach an agreement with Fox News has denied me the opportunity of watching any of their programming through the Christmas week. I have paid extra for Fox, which is what I watch the most. If this is not resolved and Fox is not returned to Dish I will be cancelling my subscription and signing up with Direct!

Dish Network's at it again! Dropping another major watched channel, Fox News and a few others. I'm medically retired so I've got a lot of time on my hands, so watching TV is a big part of my life. Turner Classic Movie channel is one of my favorite channels to watch, as I love the old time B & W movies, and also Court TV was dropped on top of the 3 major channels that carry the latest trials. Then discusses cases... was right in the televised court case, Jodi Arias/Travis Alexander murder case. The channels were gone... and it took several weeks before Dish Network came to their senses and paid their bills and now they're doing again! Bottomline, they want MORE MONEY! My New Year's resolution... more DISH NW and keep drinking!

To me it is hard to criticize either Fox or Dish. However, these people make large salaries and should be able to come to an agreement without putting the hard working consumer on the losing side. I am going to be patient for 72 more hours and make a decision to drop Dish! Sorry, someone has to suffer and the money I spend with Dish seems to be going unnoticed.

I can't believe Dish dropped Fox News. If they don't resolve this very quickly I will be switching to Direct TV without hesitation.

It seems the Dish way is to battle every broadcast negotiation using the paying subscribers as leverage but these always end in the loss of channels. If that's the M.O. then Dish needs to switch from a package billing system to an a la carte style such that the costs incurred for a blacked out channel should be easily quantified and reversed or in the case of extended outages, not billed in the next billing period. Saying to us that there is no way to calculate the cost for the lost channels in criminal when factoring in the 14 million claimed subscriber base. There needs to be a better system. Basically, if we can't watch the channel then my bill should be reduced to reflect the channel's absence. Dish shouldn't be allowed to collect for blacked out channels.

I entered into a contract with Dish Network and now they cancelled my favorite news channel the Fox News which was on 205! I need to find a way out of this 2 year contract and cancel my subscription without losing a ton of money!

When I changed from Comcast to Dish network the package I signed up for included Fox News and Fox Business. After learning of the recent decision to blackout Fox Programming, I called, sent email, and they all said that it will be a few days. Now we are going on almost 6 days now and still nothing. I want my money back this month because they have failed to live up to their agreement, and if they do not change within the next week I am canceling and going back to Comcast whom I hate with a passion. Their service is horrible but at least they have Fox News and Fox Business.

I was disappointed when several other channels were suspended a few months ago. Now I am very disappointed to see this happening all over again. Fox is a number one rated station and should be a priority for Dish. It will be resolved quickly or I too will switch services.

I have been with Dish for 20 +- years. They recently cut Fox News from their programing. Fox is the only news station that I watch for world news that is fair and balanced. If Dish wants to drop stations then there are plenty in my package that I would not miss, such as all the X rated, most of the ESPN, the ones in Spanish and other languages, all of the Sirius, the five movies they have rotated on a monthly basis for the last 10 years, all lame stream news and the stupid sitcoms. This would trim my package down from 200 to the 15 channels that I do watch. Dropping Fox sounds like a bunch of democrats conspiring against the truth. I will be expecting my bill to be reduced until I can find another network. Have a Merry Christmas!

We have Dish TV and it constantly goes out, we cannot count on it to record anything it is set to record. If the weather is even slightly bad the HD and other channels go out. Can get Dish to fix.

My husband and I are willing to pay the $400 to $700 cancellation fee so that we can either go back to cable or try DirecTV. It's not worth the aggravation of losing the Fox News Network, which we watch morning and evening. The only way we will stay with Dish is if FNN comes back on, and even then we will only stay until contracted time ends.

I have been long-time Dish subscriber and have recommended it to many others. I have never even considered another service until Dish pulled Fox News and FBN from its broadcasts. I finally reached someone via chat and was offered $5/month for 3 months as restitution for losing Fox, the only unbiased news channel available. Fox is on at my home 24-7-365. I have contacted DirecTV and will make a change if Fox does not return to Dish by December 28. Negotiations should have already been resolved between Dish and Fox. I blame Dish for pulling Fox without crediting my account or giving me an option. Substituting a super liberal news channel like CNBC that refuses to cover all of the news is no substitute. And the Blaze is too far right for me...... all talk without the real news. Yes, I'm a moderate conservative, but I still have the right to watch what I want to watch and have the right to change to another more viewer friendly satellite TV network. Shame on you, Dish. You have used your viewers in the wrong manner.

Fox v. Dish. Some say Dish is holding its customers hostage. Some say Fox is using its loyal viewership to force Dish to move their way in contract negotiations. I'm sure both sides are telling the truth to some degree. Either way, Dish loses. Fox is the only place people who watch Fox feel they can get the news. I'm happy with Dish, but I've signed up with DirecTV. I don't care who's at fault, I just want the news. Dish has about 3 days until my new DirecTV dish is installed. Until then I can cancel and stay with Dish. After that, bye bye.

I agree with a lot of other customers of Dish Network. If this dispute with Fox is over money then get rid of some of the channels that nobody watches or listens to and keep the most watched channels. I have been a loyal customer of Dish for 20 years or more. If the dispute is not resolved by the end of year I will be talking to DirecTV for my satellite provider. Can’t believe that Dish would do this to their customers.

Thank you DISH for standing up to media pressure over FOX news. Unlike many unfavorable posts here, I do not watch FOX news for reasons well documented of biased news reporting, one sided commentary, misleading and untruthful "facts" from "celebrity" desk hosts spewing nothing but bigotry and hatred. Thankfully I have a reprieve from such useless "news casting" even for but a little while. To the others complaining about rates and less products available- when speaking to customer service re: programming no longer available- I received appropriate compensation by way of billing credits and the like. Stop your whining- stop using this forum as ad space and start using your brain for what it was meant to be used for. Be the Shepard not the flock.

They have dropped so many channels now that 90% of everything we watch is gone. I have watched the same soap opera for over 20 years, and now cannot get CBS??? CBS!!!! Also, they dropped FOX! I am going to give them 48 hours and then, I am OUT! As soon as I find time, I think I'll just switch back anyway...

I've been a customer of Dish for many years. I've not had any problem until now. It seems that Dish has a complete disregard for their customers. With no warning Dish dropped Fox News as well as Fox Financial near midnight last Sunday. I had to search the web to find out what was going on. The only reason I had (past-tense) Dish in the First place was for the Programming on Fox Network. Once I found out that the problem had to do with negotiations between Fox and Dish, it didn't take long to figure out that Dish was using me and other subscribers as pawns. Fortunately I have a choice. DirecTV will be at my house tomorrow to install their service. I expect to get what I pay for and when I don't, I react as fast as possible. Thanks DirecTV for your quick response. I'll have Fox back before Christmas.

The main channel I watch is Fox News, so when Dish removed CNN, Cartoon Network, and all the other channels they monkeyed around with, I didn't pay attention. When they removed Fox, I was livid. It's bad enough that their product is subpar. Their "HD" quality is nothing compared to Comcast, who I switched to after Dish removed Fox - smartest thing I did - better picture, more channels, slick interface (easy to use), for less than I was paying for Dish. I refuse to be a pawn in Dish's inept attempt at contract negotiations with Fox. They're unable to reach an agreement and somehow that has to become my stress and my problem -unfair, unprofessional, and unacceptable. Dish should have handled their negotiations quietly, behind closed doors. They offered me $45 off per month for a year, if I'd stay - no way! I still left and am thrilled I did!

Poor business decision on Dish Network's part... Dish is perceived as unreasonable while Fox looks like a victim.

No Faux Channel. It is a real pleasure to not have my TV cluttered with a bunch of faux news? Liars giving personal views and bias crap as news.

Fox News and Fox Business Stations - If the referenced Fox channels are not on the air by 5 pm, Friday, December 26, 2014, I will be changing to DirecTV. My household has been a Dish customer since 2006 through several geographical moves; however, this nonsense is getting ridiculous. Either I am able to watch Fox channels or I will be going to DirecTV.

The fact Dish removed Fox News. I am expecting my rate to be lowered in December. If Fox is not restored and my bill not reduced I will be dropping Dish and go with Comcast.

DISH TV owes its customers a month free service, or a minimum 30% discount for the inconvenience they've caused us by not having FNC on air. FOX is the only reason I pay for TV!!! DISH has seriously failed us!!!

This whole Fox News fiasco is the last straw. I have had Dish for over 15 years, but no more - I am canceling as soon as my DirecTV is installed. Luckily I had no contractual obligation to Dish. And it turns out I am saving $8 per month with more channels on DirecTV!

There are only two reasons I pay good money to have DISH: (a) FOOTBALL (b) FOX NEWS. There just isn't anything else worth seeing on TV anymore. FOX blames DISH then DISH blames FOX. Looks like DISH is the cause of it. They seem to be looking for MORE MONEY FROM FOX. Now, while they are at war, we have NO UNBIASED news channel. It seems they could negotiate while KEEPING THE PROGRAMMING ON AIR! If this isn't resolved QUICKLY, I will be going over to DIRECTV. I hope the FCC and the FTC take a CLOSE and RAPID LOOK at this case.

We are being held hostage by DISH. They remove channels whenever they decide they need higher fees from the networks, and who pays for this, THE PUBLIC. Right now they have removed Fox News AND 2 of our local channels. Will we be refunded the charge for these channels? I think not. We have had DISH for over 10 years and this is the way they treat their customers. The problem is that the overall ratings for DISH compared to other satellite/cable providers is the highest. So again I say we are hostages.

I am a DISH Network customer for years now and they always treat me well. As long as you complete your contract and read it closely, then you wouldn't have any issues with it like a lot of ignorant customers posting on here. I don't really care much for FOX News. Anyway, I'm happy with the service and they have great customer service. Even though they lose channels, they always bring them back, and they are cheaper than DirecTV, trust me. Don't let them get you with all that new customer promotions deal. Make sure to read fine print, people!

Well, Charlie Ergen and Dish network have pissed off the wrong people. The Fox News Faithful. I initially subscribed to Dish because of the reasonable price, but soon began slight rate increases. The AMC blackout was one thing, but Fox News Channel. I have now gone 3 days without the ONLY channel I watch and am most dedicated to. Of course, I called Dish customer service dozens of times and left messages on their Facebook page expressing my anger about their actions without success. I, along with thousands upon thousands continued to get the same scripted response from Dish. It was really became insulting after a while. So today, I made a decision. I called a local provider and signed up for their service. It will be installed this Friday between 1-3. Once that doorbell rings and they show up, I'm canceling Dish Network. No more signal losses when it rains or clouds up and no more manipulative blackouts from Charlie Ergen and his crew. This falls squarely on your shoulders Charlie Ergen. Hope you enjoy your new stock prices after the Fox News Faithful make their voices heard with their money.

We subscribed to Dish network so we could get a few channels - Fox News being the most important one. Now Dish is being childish with no regard for their customers. Unless this is resolved and Fox put back on, we will be changing providers. Dish obviously has no regard for their customers' wishes and expectations. We were told we would have Fox News. Dish lied.

My husband and I have been with Dish Network for probably after 20 years. And overall we have been please with them. But blocking Fox news made us very angry. It is our main source for news. We spoke with them this morning and advised them if they do not reinstate Fox News we would be leaving. They ask us to give them some time, which we agreed to do but if it goes on much longer we will reconsider. I would like an answer to a question. Why did they not just block the sport channel instead of the news channels? WE WANT FOX NEWS BACK ON DISH.

Really? Can DISH do this? We paid for FOX and it is the only news we watch! This was included in what we pay for. Now we will have to look for another provider, as there is no advantage to keeping DISH. Way to go DISH. Bad move!

Christmas to get a new account with them. Thank you Dish for such great service! NOT!!! Totally disappointed in Dish!

Dish Network has made one last mistake in pulling Fox News channels in my book. I have heretofore been a very loyal customer, even not complaining about rate increases or the recent pulling of some CBS channels. I did not watch those anyway. But this is different! Fox News is the ONLY place to get fair reporting and analysis of daily events! If Fox news channels are not back on the air by Christmas I will call and cancel them and move to DirecTV or some other provider. This is just too much!

I've had Dish for about 8-9 yrs. When I moved the commercial free Dish mover is false. I had to pay $100 for a new Dish. I'm tired of service interruptions. Awhile back it was FX, then CNN, and CBS. Now it’s the number 1 news Fox. I'm tired of paying for all the music channels. I bought a television to watch it not to listen music channels but that's part of the package. I think I'm going to cancel them. Go to cable. It costs more but they have been dependable. We should file a class action for Dish not delivering what we pay for!!!

So Dish Network, I would like my refund for dropping one of the channels I watch the most frequently (Fox News). Actually I want one for the one month CNN outage as well. Later days Dish. I'm making the switch after 10 years with you knuckleheads.

Dish Network, knowing they would block it, did not give notice of removing programming prior to removing it. I paid dearly for the service and am tired of random blackouts. The removal of Fox news is causing me to shop for a provider that carries the programming I pay for and wish to watch. Knowing that within weeks I will probably have it back may seem silly to some that I would switch my provider but the only way as a consumer I see to prove my point is with my money. With the games they just played using the customer as the chess piece with CNN and CBS I am not willing to play it anymore. Dish, say goodbye to my monthly bill!

In fairness, let’s assume Dish is negotiating in good faith for its customers to keep rates down. However, I do not agree with their process. It is the customer that bears the burden, not Dish. I pay for a service and that service is no longer available; Dish still continues to be paid. The negotiations should have occurred long before the contract expired. Since Dish was not successful in reaching terms, one can assume a lengthy delay before settlement is reached. This form of brinksmanship is the same flawed process that Congress uses; we the people end up paying the price as the fat cats get richer.

Very upset that we no longer have FNN. I was upset even more w/out CNN. I will not continue to pay my entire bill if they keep doing this. Why do I still get billed the same amount with less channels? I feel I should be reimbursed for the channels I paid for & did not receive for the time CNN & the other stations were off the air. I may go back to cable or try DirecTV. I will have to do some research for the best deal.

We would gladly give back all cartoon, shopping, and whatever channels. We bought our subscription with Fox News and we want to continue to receive it. Conservatives may be in the minority, however, we are entitled to representation. Please, force Dish to accommodate our requests.

I have been with Dish for more than 14 years and have never even thought of getting another service. I think Fox News channel is the only fair and balanced news available and therefore the only news I watch. There lies my dilemma, do I stay with Dish or do I go with another carrier to get Fox? I wish more people would side with me in that I believe Fox would be foolish if they pull away from Dish. Fox has a very healthy share of the Cable News followers and if the several million that are (were) viewing them thru Dish Network decide to stick with Dish, Fox stands to be the Biggest Loser in the game. Fox is a much bigger multifaceted conglomerate and is throwing its weight around much like the Government. They have had it out for Dish since the DVR law suit a while back. I for one don't trust the big guys in this deal. That's just my opinion. I'll stand with Dish on this one!

I went to turn on Fox and see it is another channel the Dish has taken off. A few months ago it was Turner now Fox. If this company is going to drop channels I think they should have the decency to cut the bill price down while we do not get these channels. We are paying for something we are not viewing. We are not getting these channels yet dish is pocketing our money. When you think about the thousands who have Dish nationwide that is a big chunk of money. This is my view. I'm sure nothing will be done but I thought I air it out. Thanks.

I contracted w/ Dish because Fox news was one of the contracted Channels. They have broke the contract with me because of bad faith and intent to provide what they said they would provide. So if Fox News Channel is not on in 48 hours I will cancel my obligation and return their equipment and find new source for Fox News.

I have been a customer for over two years and I paid for Fox News. I will go to Direct TV if DISH doesn't reprogram Fox news.

We have again become hostages in the Dish dysfunctional chaotic situation of day to day living with subscribing to their service. First Turner Movie Channel, last month, and now Fox News. I have a very ill husband who enjoys watching both. TMC just came back on and now Fox is off. We have a contract with Dish that they break at a moment's notice, with no consideration for those paying their salaries. The little SW town we live in has NO other choices. None, NADA. So we are held hostage to their corporate greed. This is Christmas DISH. Have a heart and do some giving and put Fox News back on. Further more, quit playing corporate games on the backs of our hard earned money! For retired people your rates are way too high..yet we pay them on time. Please deliver the service our contract with you promised us!

Fox removed! Please return quickly or I will take my new account from 140.00 per month to the min required amount. I encourage all to do something comparable. Hit them in the financial books.

In July 2013, I signed up for Dish Network. BIG MISTAKE. In November 2013, the ex-boyfriend and I split and we both moved out of the house. I called Dish and wanted to cancel my service. First of all, if I said I wanted to CANCEL my service, NO I do not want to move it, NO, the house I'm in now has DirecTV. The guy I spoke with could barely speak English and I could hardly understand a word he was saying. He told me that my ETF was $700. Wow. There's no way I was paying that. So he convinced me to continue to pay the $80 a month I was paying until the ETF gets lower. Fine. I was paying for service in a house that NO ONE lived in for almost a year.

This consumer is furious with DISH network! They removed Fox News Channel with no warning, no customer feedback, no nothing. POOF, it's gone. As a subscriber to DISH, I had to purchase and pay for each month a higher premium just so I could enjoy watching the best news in the nation, Fox News Channel. If I do not have Fox News Channel back in the lineup by Christmas Day, DISH is going to get a nice lump of coal from me in the form of CANCELLATION OF SERVICES. I will give my business to MediaCom who seems to know what "honoring a contract" means. DISH is in breach of my contract by pulling FNC, they know it, I know it and I see a plethora of civil action/class action lawsuits heading DISH's way.

I am not happy with losing the one news station we trusted and enjoyed watching. If it does not come back, we will be looking for a new network that can support our needs. These recurring blackout of channels just makes Dish look unreliable. I am a very disappointed customer and have been with Dish Network for years!

I am going to begin a review of Direct TV to replace Dish. I will also investigate cable. Cancelling Fox News was breathtaking arrogance and stupidity by Dish. Fox News will be back on the Dish network... question is when will its Board of Directors fire this arrogant CEO. You reap as you sow.

We've been loyal DISH subscribers for over 15 years for only two programs; BYU and Fox News. We have watched channel offerings slide & we're fed up with the claims that you can get hundreds of channels only to find that most of them seemed to be duplicates of one another! Foul! With Fox News gone we suspect that we join millions whose clocks are now running out on DISH. No Fox = No DISH. And soon. PERIOD!

I have the Dish 250 package and watch a total of many 15 to 20 channels. The rest for the most part are junk. Dish is sneaky in the way they bundle the channel packages, so you have to get a much higher channel package on order to get one or two channels you really want to watch. For instance the Hallmark Movie Channel is in the 250 package which makes no sense. And, sorry, not all of us are Sportaholics and there are just too darn many sports channel. Why don't they have a Sports Package?

First it was CNN, now it's FOX News. Let the consumer decide just like the Blaze network and pay for either MSNBC or Fox depending on your political preference. I'm moving to DirecTV.

I am not waiting too long and if Dish does not put Fox back on... Well, I'm moving to a company that has Fox. It's just that simple...

When I signed up for DISH, part of the package I paid for was FOX News. It was clearly displayed along with the other programming in the package I bought. Since DISH canceled FOX, and no longer broadcasts it, I consider this a breach of contract. I contacted DISH and told them that if FOX News is not back on by January 1, I will move to Direct TV, or the local cable company.

Found FNN had disappeared on Monday morning. It is my only network I watch for accurate news. Usually on for 7 hrs a day. Called Dish and all I got was a nice lady that could not really help but was very sorry. Told her if FNN was not restored by Saturday they were history. I have been a customer for 10 yrs. Of course the bottleneck is always at the top and that is where the big boys are at Dish. We could just scrape some pay off these guys to pay for the increase. Never happen. But replacement is always an option. I still have my cable co. And can now save some green stuff with the click of a button. Thanks Dish... Hope your ship sinks. No need for this...

We have contacted DISH Network twice and told them no FOX NEWS, NO more DISH. It is upsetting to us as consumers that DISH is allowed to continue charging for a package that includes Fox News, yet no longer airs Fox News. DISH blames it on Fox and vice versa. We have not heard Fox state anything officially other than thru internet statements indicating DISH as the party who has "blocked" the Fox News Channels. We watch Fox daily as we know the other News organizations supply the American public based on their personal agendas. Ha, why do you think most of America doesn't have a clue? It's because they follow empty, factless, unsubstantiated "news." Anyway, We will take the time to figure out who is being dishonest in this situations? If DISH, they are gone. If it is Fox, we can no longer trust their word either. They advertise as fair and balanced, along with that comes honesty. We will hold them accountable to that also.

Sick & tired of dish controlling what I watch all the while charging the same amount to my bill. At the least they should prorate my bill to reflect my loss of a channel that is the primary channel we watch. All of our neighbors have directv and have not had any interruptions like we have - 2 in the last year alone - how do they get away with charging for something no longer offered? This is pretty much the last straw for this household. The consumer is always the victim and I'm sick of dish.

I've been getting fed up with Dish Network for quite some time with some of the program cuts but the removal of FOX News is the straw that broke this camel's back. My Christmas words to Dish will be - bye bye!!

I have had Dish for over 8 years. In the past three years, we have lost favorite channels due to Charlie, the Emperor CEO who loves to be a big shot, fighting with companies providing channels. Rather than negotiate, he takes his toys and goes home, leaving customers without their favorite channels. I went without 8 Turner Network Channels for almost a month, and that was bad enough, but to lose FOX NEWS Channel, the NUMBER ONE channel in Cable news, without fanfare, and just cut off in the middle of Huckabee was it for me. I am fed up. I called my local Cable Company, Cox, and they are coming to install Contour in my home within the hour. Dish is done. To add insult to injury, "I" have to pay to send their crap receivers and remotes back to them!!! The Dish will be taken to the local recycler, and should be used as a boat anchor. But, I digress. If you love chaos, stay with this horrible company, and if you need to talk to someone to help, be assured they are from India or Pakistan who speak broken English. Terrible, Terrible, Terrible. Subscribe at your own risk.

My 81 yr. old mother decided to switch to Dish. I had a 19-minute conversation I had with Matt on 10-23-14, the supposedly record these conversations "for QUALITY ASSURANCE" stated at the beginning of every call. I happened to get the agents permission to record it and glad I did: 9-24 install, 9-26 gave dish my credit card (nothing said about the $5 + change not going through for the initial payment which was to come out of savings NOT Checking) could have been corrected easily at this point. 10-2-14 @ 10 pm my mother stated she received a phone call that she would be disconnected unless she pays $75 + change. 10-3-14 I call in paid $49.74 (this was the $75 + a credit of $25 for 1/2 my mothers NSF fees), which the NSF fees were actually $50. 10-23-14 I call in and was not allowed to talk to loyalty dept. UNLESS I PAID the $130.76 (similar to blackmail in my opinion).

That is it Fox news network being blocked is the final straw. I am cancelling my Dish today. With all the money I pay to DISH and they nickel and dime you to death, I have had it. Bring Fox news back or I am done.

I have been a Dish customer for many years, I don't even remember how long, but without Fox News channel I will cancel my Dish!

On my one yearly vacation this week, I went to stay in a woods in Ohio with two 90 year old family members. Already feeling a tad isolated, imagine my anger when I awoke home for the holidays to the realization that Fox News was nowhere to be found. Eventually the Dish Network director appeared, clearly no better than those who run North Korea! Seething, I tried without success to reach someone anyone at Dish to express my meltdown style anger to. Dish is ruining my Christmas! Being left with only CNN is tantamount to getting a lump of coal in my stocking. Not fair! I have been good all year! May the next Sony comedy please be about Dish Network!

In an effort to be "Fair and Balanced" I am VERY disappointed DISH dropped Fox. I find it rather ironic that my onscreen DISH guide says Fox removed themselves? Come on folks, first CNN and now Fox. What's next? The clock is ticking for me with Dish. I paid for delivered programming and Dish, you are not delivering. Your lineup is getting leaner with lame broadcast options that only a sedated populace could put up with. Tick tock....

I was in the middle of watching the Huckabee show, Saturday night, when all of a sudden, my TV screen was blank! I thought, oh it's just a glitch and will come back right away. Boy was I wrong! The channel was no longer available. What??? I called Dish right away and they blamed Fox for cutting the channel, but I thought that would be odd for them to shut it off midstream of the public watching a show on Fox. I flat out told them, when I called, that I would be switching providers if Fox was not back on real soon. I liked Dish up until that night. Fox is one of the most watched channels on TV. In fact, most of my day is watching Dish. Keep the pressure on folks! Fox rules.

I am very displeased of the fact that I no longer have access to Fox news. Fox News is the only honest informative news station out there. I feel like a lost child trying to find their way back home and it's not a good feeling. I have been a dedicated Fox viewer for over 12 years and that's why I bought Dish. Bring them back please so I can feel whole again.

I've read news reports and am turned off by finger-pointing between DISH and FOX. It reminds me of the government shut down, where the people who depend most upon service providers are the ones who get dumped on. As a consumer and loyal viewer, I am disgusted by the shenanigans employed on both sides of this conflict. I feel like I've been "fished" (f'd by both FOX and DISH). I choose FOX over any competing news source, and I've chosen DISH over its competition. In my view, of the two, DISH can be replaced, FOX NEWS can't.

As much as I have to pay each month for service with Dish and they do this, a blackout with Fox and with Capital Broadcasting (WRAL) out of Raleigh. So this is my Christmas present from Dish. Merry freaking Christmas to me. Dish Network will get what they deserve. I hope every subscriber goes to a different carrier. I wouldn't refer a friend to Dish if my life depended on it. I will be going back to Direct TV. Hope everyone else does the same.

We would never have signed up for Dish network if they did not carry FOX NEWS. Dish advertises a list of programs to get you to purchase their service, but have not continued to purchase the programs they said would carry. They need to stop this disruptive practice of operation. We need the programs listed actually provided otherwise all funds need to be refunded and no penalty for cancellation.

After several years of paying for extra boxes that I don't need, I get to pay for a new box that is now leased. And I get to pay for a person to come install it. Meanwhile I have no service and if I get service I will still have no FOX channels. Thanks for the rude incompetent customer service. And the rude incompetent service guy. I'm done. Going to DirecTV after 20 years. You people suck!

I pay a fee to Dish for certain channels. Fox News is one of them. Dish, you are slowly taking any of the good channels away leaving me with crappy channels to watch. I will be changing my plan in order to receive the channels I intended to have.

Not worthy of a star, how insulting to a star... Anyway I have had Dish for almost 3 years. I had no problems the first 2 years under my contract, but as soon as that was up, there goes my ability to watch television. For the last 7 months I have been able to watch 1-3 channels at given time mostly no channels only DVR. I work 80 hours a week, so I have called a couple of times and it has been set up to where someone is going to come out repair the satellite. I have taken days off work and have missed income due to the fact that I am paying severe cash monthly for this service that I am not receiving? No one shows up? Call customer service, same story no-results. Then I start losing channels due to the lame brain owner who does not care about his customers and it shows. I classified Time Warner as the worst company ever, it's a pretty close race. I am sorry ever left DirecTv. Never had problems except a little expensive, but I guess you get what you pay for. Thanks Dish, thanks for really not giving a **. Best of luck!

How comes DISH cancelled my FOX channel? Google said they were putting pressure on the sports side trying to make more money, but I believe DISH got sucked in by the administration and are kowtowing to them.

Called Dish Network to complain about the removal of Fox News from my programming. This is almost the only channel that I watch (90 percent of the time) and they offered no explanation, no discount, no timeline for resolution, and I am actively looking for another carrier. Pretty let down with Dish network.

I have been a customer for awhile with my in-laws being customers for many years. I am EXTREMELY angry about your lousy business decision regarding blocking out Fox Channels. I have already called twice, with a very small credit to my account which IS NOT ADEQUATE. Further, if this progresses past a few more days I WILL BE SWITCHING TO ANOTHER CARRIER even though we are bundled. Finally, I will, since I am retired and I do have a wide sphere of friends that I talk with often and many have Dish, persuade as many as I can to switch likewise.

Ok, Dish. We paid for all the channels in the package. We expect all the channels in the package. How about we just pay what we think we owe you? Does that work? This is going to cost you way more than Fox is going to want if you don't straighten this out.

Don't you guys get it? Dish does this to try and keep your rates down. What should they do pay - whatever Fox wants. This is why Dish’s contract with you says they can are their rates and change their programming whenever they want. They know money hungry multimedia corps will keep raising their rates to them. Next thing you know top 120 will be 200 a month. Thank god for Dish sticking up for us and trying to keep my Dish bill within reason.

If you don't get Fox News back on line I am switching to DirecTV.

I'm free! I'm finally free! Fox News is no longer polluting my television line up! Thank you, DISH! Thank You! I hope that this issue of FOX trying to gouge you goes on for years! Why, I'd pay more per month just to know I will never have to accidentally flip over to that station again, and no one else in my house will be able to either!

We recently contracted with Dish Network for a specific program package that they have now changed! I entered this agreement in good faith that they would provide the programs I paid to watch and now they have cancelled the Fox channels that I watch everyday, all day long! I am now paying for a bunch of crap I do not want to watch!

Shame on you DISH for blocking FOX News channel. Stop using your customers as bargaining chips and bring back FOX News today! I expect to get what I pay for and that is FOX NEWS. DON'T use my hard earned money to play games. If I don't get FOX back very soon you will no longer get another $ from me. By the way DirecTV has not blocked FOX NEWS!!! I spend a lot of money each month with dish, I have all the bells and whistles, and I do this because I enjoy FOX. I am paying for 3 HD receivers and a hopper.

I called DirecTV this morning as when I arrived home, Fox has been taken off my service by Dish network. I will be back watching O'Reilly, Megan Kelly, Hannity, Waters World, Greta and The News tomorrow. DirecTV will have their system installed the next day! It's 1/2 the price of Dish, also, mention my name and you will get $10.00 off your bill every month for 10 months, this is their referral program.

I got Dish network solely for the Fox News network and will leave it if FOX is not added back in two weeks and once I leave I will not return. It is part of the package I bought and should be compensated for it being dropped.

Missing Fox. I watch this channel, 205, for hours everyday. I want it back.

When we signed up for Dish Fox News, Fox Business and Turner classic movies were our main desires. Since that time our bill has continually gone up, and Dish has took away TCM (with no rebate or refund to us). Now they are doing the same thing with Fox, all they are giving you is a bunch junk channels that PAY them to advertise on Dish. Time to find another provider unless Fox comes back within 48 hours along with a rebate for the lack of it for days!!!!

We no longer get Fox News on our television. We paid for it and we are not getting it. The Fox programs are our most watched programs. It is the only source of real news that we have. The other news networks are more concerned with weather disasters and what Hollywood is doing.

The main channel my wife and I watch is Fox News Channel and now we do not have it. I was insulted by an individual who said they could cut our bill by $5.00 this month. I pay $89.00 and unable to watch what I want to watch. Was told it would cost $120 to disconnect service. I AM NOT GETTING ANY SERVICE. I do not like DISH.

Back in May I subscribed to Dish satellite TV and Dish Net. I explained to the rep that the service was for our Summer home and we would not need the service for 5 months in the winter. The rep offered me the Dish Pause option. Little did I know that did Not include Dish Internet. After several automated phone calls saying I was past due on my account I was told by Dish the past due amount was on my internet service. Long story short I terminated my internet contract with Dish and absorb a $335.00 charge. I returned the modem a week before due yet still received a $99.00 charge on my final bill!!! Today was my 5th phone call to Dish regarding this problem (on their end). 3+ hours of my time to take care of their problem. I Cannot stand Dish Network!!!! I have no choice but to have their service due to where I live. And on top of all their problems, which have become My problems, they get rid of Fox News?? I wish all of us Dish customers could cancel our service!!!!

We signed up with Dish with the understanding that certain programming would be available. On more than one occasion you acted to eliminate certain programming, with the option being we could continue the programming if we wanted to opt for the next level up, or put more plane, pay more. Most recently you acted to eliminate Fox News. I believe we have reached a breaking point with you. As soon as we can we will be discontinuing service with you. Your programming as far as I am concerned was never better than marginal for the most part. My wife really liked the Hallmark stations, but even she agreed you have gone too far. At the close I also intend to ire my dissatisfaction with you on Facebook and Twitter.

We live in a rural area where DSL was our only option for Internet until recently. We bought DISH internet with full assurances of truly high speed communications. The installer came and installed a new dish (separate from our DISH TV equipment) and left without demonstrating that it worked at all, it didn't perform at anything that resembles acceptable slower than the DSL line. After three days of no one returning calls to the installer's number we contacted DISH support. The representative tested the line, saw that it was totally unacceptable and made a service call. The tech came out the next day and without checking anything told us that DISH internet would not work in our area, his own test equipment would not work. He told us we had to contact DISH to cancel our subscription.

The FOX news channel has been dropped by DISH. FOX is the best news channel we have. They are brutally honest and quite frankly that is what we, the American public needs! DISH will be losing ANOTHER client!

I had to wait for 10 minutes before I spoke to a representative. When I did talk to them, they couldn't help me. I want to cancel our contract with them because they took FOX news off the air. A couple of weeks ago it was something else. That representative couldn't help me and I had to wait another 5 minutes for someone else to tell me to be patient... REALLY? They are in breach of contract with me!!! When we signed up with them they provided a list of channels that we would be getting and now they aren't providing them! DO NOT SIGN UP WITH THIS COMPANY. Stick with Direct TV! That is what I should have done.

Being long term DISH customers, we've tended to chuckle at the DISH commercials comparing them to DIRECTV as we've been very happy with DISH. Sure we knew about the recent "disagreements" between DISH and Turner Broadcasting, CNN, HLN et al but quite honestly didn't really care as we didn't watch those channels anyway. We do appreciate and largely share the views of TheBlaze... sorry Glenn you're a great supplement to FOX but you're not a replacement! Al Jazeera America is at times thought provoking and interesting but also not a replacement for FOX.

OK I lost FOX on DISH like everyone else. But I for one am glad DISH is playing hardball with FOX. I know who I think is the biggest bully in this case. I have had Direct TV and cable and prefer DISH by a significant margin... And yes, I know I speak for the minority opinion.

I cancelled a portion of DISH & they turned off the cancelled part but charged me for the service just the same. It is impossible to get hold of anyone at Dish. They are dishonest & seem to get away with it.

They dropped Turner first which I enjoyed TMC and now Fox News. As a "Truman Conservative" I now have no place in TV news! Once in awhile I view CNN but I am put off by their liberal slant. Fox News appears more conservative than it is in actuality because MSNBC & CNN are so liberal. Also the tech support of Dish is laughable. When you call in, they outsource to the Philippines, the first question they ask even in July "is there snow blocking your dish?" and it goes downhill from there. We live in a rural area and only our TracFone works from home so we pay every minute of a trouble call. Also their search engine reminds of MSDOS, if you don't get everything precise it goes blank. Whereas Direct TV (which we had for several years) search engine is like Amazon i.e. if you're close it'll give you plenty of choices along with "if you enjoyed this what about these." It also will give you a search for actors, etc.

If I haven't read an article about the Fox-Dish fight I wouldn't have known. I haven't watched Fox News in years. This is like losing the sleeve from my vest. I see no value in this programming so I do not see this as a take away.

Couldn't be happier now that Fox is gone. Keep it up Dish and I'll sign a lifetime contract!

Hooray for Dish not bowing to Fox's ridiculous increase. So glad I signed up for Dish network. Now if we can just get every other provider to drop Fox, maybe people will get some truth with their news casts

The first week of December I made a payment on the Dish bill. I mistakenly pressed to pay the full payment instead of the past due. I called immediately and talk to 2 people told them What happened and would they please refund the current amount due. I was told "no problem but it has to clear in your account first before we can REFUND your money." After it cleared I called back and I spoke to Jan who told me "No problem I will file it and get your money to you." I asked her "Are you sure I will be refunded?" and she said "Yes no problem." The next week called back to see if the refund was being put back into my account or if I was being sent a check. I spoke to Ben who said "Yes this has been approved and you will be refunded your money. It will go back into your bank account."

I liked DISH when I first signed up, then it seemed like every month another channel was being pulled CNN, now FOX and there was someone else in there I forget. What a way to run a company. On top of all this they are increasing my bill $5.00 a month starting Jan 2015. I am going back to Comcast as soon as my contract is up.

Dish network why are you holding me in a contract! When I signed on with your service we expected certain programs. You breached my contract. I expect fairness towards customers. In fairness either return Fox news or release customers that are being short changed. You changed the service I was happy with, do the right thing.

We've been using noisy, antique equipment from Dish for sometime now, they're not interested in correcting the problem, now they've discontinued FOX News... Meanwhile I have numerous music and sports channels that I CARE NOTHING ABOUT BUT I HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM ANYWAY... Get with it, Dish, or you are SO gone from my home AND my business.

Thank goodness they are gone - I was forced to take them and now I don't have to pay for all of that hate mongering. Sign me up for two more years!

I must applaud Dish Network for their stance with Fox, Turner, CBS & any other content provider. What few people realize (by the pro Fox shill comments) is that when these content providers raise their rates to service providers, that rate increase is passed on to the consumer. I don't believe all of these complaints are actually from consumers as most legitimate commentators would understand this. If the price of tomatoes goes up in every store, you don't blame the grocers because they know to keep their prices as low as possible else you'd shop elsewhere. Same thing for ANY service provider of ANY service. This battle between Dish & Fox is no different than DirecTV's battle with The Weather Channel or CBS or the countless other disputes they had with content providers.

FOX News is just about the ONLY reason we watch TV. If DISH and FOX cannot come to a SPEEDY agreement, I will have no other option than to cancel my subscription to the Dish Network. I will also be asking for a rebate.

FOX news has been the worst "NEWS" channel that can happen to America. This channel is just as extreme and false as Al-Jazeera (which was hated by so many conservatives). I will be renewing my DISH contract and adding more receivers in my home as a sign of support. I will also be recommending DISH to all my friends. Thank you DISH NETWORK for removing trash channels from your lineup.

Fox missing? No biggie.. Dish is trying to keep the rates low and anyone complaining about the outage would also be complaining about the high rates if Dish did not do what they are doing.

I pay $160.00 each month for cable TV, and you can't come to a deal with Fox News? And you want to blame this on Fox News? Are you aware of your track record over the past 10-12 years? Rest assured that everyone else is!

I have been a faithful customer with Dish Network for years but I am tired of their inability to negotiate contracts and constantly blocking my favorite networks. This has happened over and over again. This last failure over Fox News is the last straw for me. That is the only news channel my family and I watch. If they cannot carry Fox then I will have another provider. What's more, when you call to get a status of the negotiation, you never get an answer. I am beyond upset. I am fed up!

I have paid Dish for the channels that view Fox news & Fox business. I therefore demand a refund from Dish and I will after 19 years leave dish for DirecTV within the next few days if Dish fails to provide what I have paid for!

Either dish or Fox made a big mistake when they blackout Fox News. If Dish thinks this will make us start watching the liberal news media. Dish customer service was the pits as far as helping us. I will give them two weeks to get their act together then if things aren't changed we (after being a dish customer for 15 years) will find another subscriber.

Dish has a one-way contract... cancellation of channels. I would not have dish had I understood their business practices. Called Dec 20 told $650 due to cancel service. They may or may not get Fox news back to programming. They offer NO adjustments for not keeping their end of the contract. We the people need to find better company to give our money too. Out of this mess at end of my contract.......

They evidently feel that, since they have more customers than DirecTV, they can be cavalier about their relationships with their customers. Doing this dirty Dish deed to FOX during Christmas week exemplifies their "holier-than-thou" opinion of themselves. One would be wise to dump Dish stock and switch carriers. The only way to retaliate against such crassness is through the pocketbook.

We arrived home from travels Sunday to find Dish has blocked the channel I watch the most. I called them and got the excuse they are in negotiations with Fox. Well I am not in negotiations. I paid for Fox as part of my channel package and I want it back now. I told the customer rep that I will fire them if they don't have Fox restored Monday. She seemed nonplussed by this promise.

Fox News, the only news channel I watch, was removed without notice, from my DISH TV subscription package. When I started with DISH, it was part of what they offered. Where is my rebate from taking away what I watch almost all the time? Better yet, put FOX back on immediately and restore what you promised me when I signed up.

Dish is wrong to remove Fox news from its programming. They are not helpful on the phone and on live chat. They read a script to their customers blaming Fox News.

When I signed up to DISH, FOX News and FOX Business was in the package. Without them, I would expect a huge drop in my rates at least. However, I'm not waiting for them to realize their miscalculations on the backlash that is going to come from this. DISH uses their customers as pawns in their negotiations and forgets there are options. I'm going to DirecTV today.

We have had DISH for several years. They dropped FOX & today I ordered DIRECTV. I paid for FOX. DISH contracted with me to provide FOX as part of my package & they have defrauded me. Class action is needed here.

My husband just told me to cancel our service with Dish Network. Blocking Fox News violates our freedom of speech. We have a right to be heard. I hope that Dish reconsiders this move they made. I see we are not the only people enraged about this.

I have been a customer of Dish for 12+ years. On more than two occasions they have taken networks off the system. This morning no FOX Business or FOX News. That was the last straw... after being on hold for over 30 minutes and getting some agent overseas, they transferred me to someone higher up. I told them that if FOX is not reinstated in 24 hours, cancel my account. They offered me $20 which is a slap after putting up with their increases year after year with less entertainment value. Very poor business ethics and responsibility on Dish management. I will be back to Cable by Christmas.....best gift ever! Thanks Dish....I needed a reality check this year.

I cancelled Dish immediately upon my not being able to get FOX news, which I believe is a breach of "implied" contract on Dish's part. Do any lawyers out there see a class action there? I refused to be bought, when I cancelled they offered unbelievable deals (three times), each one better than the last. Well it will cost me dearly but I simply cannot stand it anymore. Bad enough at 71 years old I need to climb up over two stories to get the equipment off my steep roof (in the snow), and I dread the confiscating my charge card account monies the way they are going to. Oh, I was lead to believe that the equipment return wouldn't cost me. How about $17 for the shipping labels (per box). Oh well, just call me stupid. I will let you all know how it turns out. I wonder what FOX says, when dish seems to be placing all the blame on them?

Well they finally reached the bottom of the sewer. These communist left wing cartel ** cut off Fox News thinking the American people would just lie down and accept their heavy hand. I got news for them. They just let the genie out of the bottle. They are the greediest self-serving cartel in America. Bundling the most disgusting selections of useless stations in order to charge their customers outrageous fees in order to get a dozen useful stations. It is time for the American consumer to band together and go after the commie Senators and congressmen in Washington DC who have allowed this cartel to dictate what we the consumer must watch. It is time to go after these greedy **’ bank account and let them know we will no longer eat the Pablum they want to serve us.

I have a contract with Dish Network. To break it I will have to pay a fee. Contract is until December 2015. I am about ready to pay the fee, but at this time of year, I can't afford it, so this is my Merry Christmas from Dish Network!!! Pulling Fox News I hope will cost Dish Network serious loss of customers. What horrible customer service they provide. To pull one of the only program that I watch, among the 798 crappy programs they offer, is insane. A few weeks ago they pulled TCM, the only other program that I watch. They pulled TCM for almost a month, telling me that other providers do this. I know of no other provider that has done this!!!

I called to get new service and was connected right away to an agent who told me that I would get Internet and TV for $105 and after my credit check installation fee waived, equipment charges waived, the only thing I would pay is first month upfront, which I agree to the $105 charge. Turns out it was almost $200 to get started. When I tried to cancel I got put on hold twenty minutes transferred to retention who tried to offer me $10 of per month for six month ($60) for being charged the extra hundred dollars to keep the service. When I said no I just want all of my money refunded to my account they said I have to wait two days and call back wait on hold twenty to thirty minutes to request a refund. This company is dishonest and I would not recommend them to anyone.

I have had Dish service 3 times in my life over the last 15-20 years. The first two times ended because of divorce, and moving (opting for rabbit ears to save money). I will NEVER have Dish Network again!! EVER! Why? You ask...

Fox News is not available on DISH. I hope everyone reading this will do as I did. Call DISH and demand they give you a $15 discount for the next three or cancel your DISH service. They DID give it to me! This should help motivate DISH!!!

I cannot believe that DISH has the nerve to not keep FOX news on the air. Our country is in shambles with everything going on and the only fair and balanced news is on this channel and if DISH can't see that, I don't want to be a DISH customer.

In order to be an informed American I need to hear both sides. Without Fox to balance the opinions, you have become nothing more than propaganda for the left. I will be cancelling my subscription to Dish Network ASAP. You should be ashamed.

Dish needs to be legally challenged. First, they stop providing channels you were promised in your contract with them, but provides no financial reduction in fees for this. I contend this is a BREACH OF CONTRACT. When I signed with them, the list of provided channels included FOX and TURNER. If they wish to blackout these channels, they owe their customers a rebate in fees for not providing these networks. Second, when I tried to cancel, I was told that I owed $140 for cancelling the contract. I have been a customer for over 2 years. A year ago I called to try to lower my monthly fees and informed them that in 5+ years I have never used the DVR. They said that they could come and downgrade my service by replacing the DVR with a Non DVR box. and save me $8-10 a month. I agreed. To my surprise this renewed my 2-year contract and to save less than $240 dollars, I was now on the hook for $280!!! Cable companies need to be controlled, either by legal action or Congress. I wish we could go back to a TV antenna!

I will be leaving you as soon as possible because of no longer having Fox News.

Fox blackout - It is clear that your corporation and stockholders has made all the money you could ever spend. I will be leaving you soon as your game playing during one of the most critical periods in our nation’s history excludes you from being a player of value. FOX will return after I have left, so I will have no way of knowing that they are back on Dish. You will have no way of letting my family know that you were just fooling around with FOX and didn’t really mean to go out of business yourself. If you can tell me right this minute that the FOX network will come on during the day, do so now.

Forget about using these guys if you have a motor home and need to change local stations when you change locations. DISH customer service can NEVER EVER EVER get you the local station change without 3 or more phone calls for EACH location change. Customer service is useless. Supervisors are useless. They just refuse to provide this service without so much time and phone calls that it is just not worth it. And they charged us $274 for the receiver and installation. Goodbye DISH, hello DirecTV. Even if DirecTV sucks, they can never be as bad as DISH!!!!

When making calls I was just transferred from operator to operator and no one gave me a clear answer. They did not give me the deals they were offering me just moving the charges up is all they could be doing. The very first operator Christina was nice but from there only one other man could get what I was explaining. The others were very rude and inpatient not willing to listen clearly or ask questions to satisfy the customer.

With that disclaimer said, I will continue with how horrible this technology is... For something that's been around since the 50s, readily available as access to the internet since its inception during the late 1990s and early 2000s, it's advanced at the rate of say Fossil fuels. Horribly.

Have been with Dish network for 4 - 5 years. A year or so after our contract was up, I got a hold of them to see if we could possibly get a new system. They say sure just need to sign a new contract but no good pricing schedule. Have to pay full price. I say forget it we're going to DirecTV. So they send me to account specialist. They say great news we can get you all new systems for free. No commitments! I say sounds good but I want paper billing. Sure sure! We get the new system and at the end tech asked to sign for equipment and 2-year contract. So I sign for equipment but say there's no way I'm signing a contract.

I just got Dish Tv and since I've gotten it my last name is wrong on the contract and even though I have advised them of that no change. So I want to know since they have lied to me about the contract and the price and we have had nothing but problems with it since we signed up. What right do I have to get out of the contract??? They say their customer service is great and it's not. When I first talked with them they said you can run two tvs off one box. What they didn't tell me was if you're recording two shows, both tvs have to watch the same show, so needless to say we have to have two boxes which is more money. So in the long run the consumer gets screwed again.

We are bound with a 2 yr contract for Dish TV with financial penalties for disconnecting service early, $20 per mo, prior to end of contract. For 12 mos would be $240.00!! However Dish is dropping important channels from our plan and increasing the price!! So far we have lost CNN, losing CBN and Fox news channels. How can they get away with this???

Be warned, Dish TV DOES NOT STAND BY THEIR CUSTOMERS once they get your signed contract and money! I recommend that anyone who is thinking of becoming a Dish TV customer, that you do your research!

This is the worse cable company I have ever used! Their packages are expensive. They make you get a 2 year contract and they offer a "$20 discount" for 1 year (you can get this specials with more channels for the same price "Discounted price" with other cable providers). Plus that was something that was not mentioned to me at the beginning. Wow!!! If you want to add a receptor, please avoid that. Then if you want to cancel the contract there is a $260 fee for that. Idk I'm just not happy with their service. I felt they just want to have you stuck with a 2 year contract and once you have signed the contract there is no way to reduce the bill. I just didn't have this experiences before with other cable providers I have used. I wanted to try something new, but I went wrong this time.

Well I got TV and internet bundle. When I purchased, the lady asked if I had a router or needed to purchase one from Dish. I said I would just purchase one from Dish and she said that it was $100 but on special, I could get it for $50 with the new service. The tech came out the next day and installed everything but the internet was horrible. We literally had to reboot the router every time we tried to use the wireless internet. I called and complained and they sent a new tech out to check the router for problems. Here's where it gets interesting.

I had so many service issues. As soon as my 2 year commitment was over (9/2010), I cancelled. All the equipment was returned. I even paid for more one more month just to be rid of the headaches. Today I came home and found a collection notice from AFNI for $115.29. I called and they confirmed my last payment, and the return of the equipment, but could not tell me what this charge was for. I paid for two years of bad service and worse customer service, and not once did Dish offer me any compensation for all the days without service. It's a slap in the face to receive this notice now. This is not the way to win business.

Dec. 5, 2014, I called DISH to discuss my bill. I was offered a 30 dollar discount on my bundle (TV, DSL, PHONE). Instead of the discount, my phone was shut off Dec. 10 and my DSL was gone the next day. I called Terrance in Littleton, CO. He told me that my phone should not have been shut off and offered me a $50 credit, plus credit for the time my phone and DSL were down. When the phone came back on, I was given a different phone number. I called back and talked to someone who said he was in the president's office and there was an order to disconnect the phone. They would not give me back my original phone number. Why can't they go back and listen to the recordings with agents? I would never shut off my phone as it is connected to two different alarms. I took notes on everything that was said. I did not get all the credits they offered. And my bill is back to where it was. I have another year with them. HORRIBLE COMPANY.

Be aware when you cancel service you are required to pay shipping costs of returning equipment, not a huge deal, about $18. They will tell you this. BUT what they won't do is charge your account on file. When you cancel, your account is closed but they will send you an email with the $18 charge stating "charged to your account," so you think it's done, then a month or two later you get daily phone calls from collections over this charge. You try and contact DISH via the email you received (because you no longer have an account and can't log in or get anywhere over the phone without an account #) and get a notice "charged to auto-pay." Well, they won't ever charge your auto-pay because you no longer have an account. The collections person even said they shouldn't have worded their emails this way. Do yourself a favor and if you haven't yet signed up - DON'T and if you cancel, see how you can just pay that charge over the phone.

From Pastor ** - been way over charged for at least 6 mo. at around $200.00 a mo. My name is Terry **. I stuck with paying 200 a mo. for what I know was way too much. It should have been only a $100.00 a mo max. I got tired of it all. Called them over and over and they said it’s normal. I got to where I was tired of being way overcharged. So one month I didn’t pay. Months later I called - I missed sat and I owed them all kinds of money is what they said. I have witnesses to prove all this is true - to do the right thing they need to pay me back all that was overcharged to me and still I missed sat so much and called a lot of times to work it out. Was even willing to pay them to get sat back.

I am moving in with my fiance who has Dish network. I had it in my apartment although it didn't work properly on either TV. I called to cancel my service since I am moving in with him. They asked me 3 times if I want to transfer my service to his home. No... he already has dish network. Hello?? How many times do I have to say that? They won't send me boxes to return my equipment, they say I have to bring it with me and continue to pay for 7 months. What kind of customer service is this? They want both my fiance and I to pay for their crappy service. I will never refer a friend to Dish network, and once our contracts are up, we won't use them again.

I had Dish TV service and was ok with it. I signed up for their internet service in Aug. It was horrible, it would go down 5 to 6 times a day. I had to unplug the modem then wait for it to recycle. I called Dish 3 times but they never sent anyone to fix it. I finally called and cancelled both the internet and TV service. I argued with their rude customer service rep for 15 minutes. He never turned the service off and they kept billing me for it. I went with sudden link the same day I had called Dish to have it turned off. They removed almost a $1,000 from my mother's bank account. After several phone calls I received a refund of $545. They are still charging me almost 500 for early termination. Over $300 just for the internet. I do not feel I should have to pay early termination fees for something that did not work correctly. I will be filing in small claims court against these rip off artists.

I have been on the phone with your company for over 2 hrs. complaining about service been disconnected because a manager told me to pay on certain day. Tried to call corporate and was transferred to six different account specialists that keep telling me that they are from the corporate office. You are going to lose lot of customers because of all these little deceit by people that represent your company. I am thinking about switching to another company after 6 yrs. of been with DISH. I demand a call from the real corporate representative.

I don't even have dish network, but the phone call I just experienced made sure that I never will! I called to find out their prices, and the man on the phone was incredibly rude the whole time. I wasn't aware that I couldn't just get internet, and I told him our TV was free (because we don't have cable!) and he said “Well then maybe you should get internet for free.” Very snobby. Then, I just went along with it because I wanted to see how much it was, and I told him we would want the cheapest cable set up, and he kept asking how many TVs, etc. I said “Probably one because we want the cheapest TV since we don't watch!” At this point I was getting flustered, and he had another rude response so I asked to speak with someone else and he said he was the only one. I said, “Really, in your whole company, you're the only person I can speak with?” He said, “Yes, you can call again but you'll just get me.”

When I ordered Dish to replace ATT for my internet and cable I was NOT told my internet was limited. I also was not told I'd have TWO dishes in my backyard. My TVs will sometimes freeze and if it's not corrected by Dish my TV will shut off. I called to complain about not being told about the limited internet or that I'd have two dishes. Reply: "The order was placed, you must have known about both." Stupid comment as I would not have ordered limited internet and not be able to do research from Ancestry.com. Yesterday I received notice my bill will be going up a minimum of $7.00 per month. I've had this rotten service for less than 2 months! Threats of turning off one of my local channels, customer service that is terrible. A charge for a tech coming out because the 1st tech did not tell me how to restart the service although I received a message via email I would not be charged for the visit! I'll pay to stop the service early and sue the hell out of these crooks!

Four and half years ago at a different residence in a different city, I had an account with DISH Network. The contract I signed said that they would guarantee service in the downstairs living room and the upstairs master bedroom. The service in the upstairs bedroom never worked properly. Sometimes we got the channels to change upstairs by turning the TV off downstairs. Sometimes we had to turn the power off to the box, then turn it back on without turning the downstairs TV on. Often, we would just forgo watching TV in the bedroom.

We signed up for Dish last month (November 10th) and we already (December 15th) received an email stating that our bill would be going up $5 starting next month! We were told we would be locked in to the package price for 12 months. IT'S A BLATANT LIE AND A TRAP TO GET YOU TO SWITCH!! When you call you get a song and dance about being the lowest and channel owners are raising prices. When you lock in a price, it shouldn't matter till after that 12 months. BUT NOT WITH DISH! They will put it in your contract that they can no matter what they promise when you sign up! Nothing but thieves!!

I recently moved to N. Idaho temporarily to see if I would like to eventually relocate here permanently or be a snowbird. I have a six month lease and only brought the necessities I could fit in my car here. My home is in CA. I had no intention of permanent residence in Idaho returning when it started to snow. One day a salesman from Dish catches me working on one of my rentals and proceeds to pitch this TV service to me. At the time I had just internet and no TV at my rental. My internet is with TWC which has no contracts, when I got a TV I was going to go with them. This sales guy talks me into going with Dish and has me sign a 7" tablet explaining that I was signing up for the discounted package for HBO etc. I spoke to a gal on the phone to verify. I was NEVER TOLD THAT THERE WAS A 24 MONTH COMMITMENT.

Last year our receiver box went out and we contacted Dish who sent us a new one... It took 4 days. They did not overnight it. As soon as it finally got here I packed up the old one and took it to a UPS office as instructed with a picture of a UPS truck. About 4 weeks later I start getting phone calls and emails that they have not received it. I told them I sent it...maybe it got lost. The harassment continued. Finally I went down to the office I had dropped it off at and found it was sitting on a shelf. I ask why? They told me it was a Fedex. They send me UPS instructions and slip in a Fedex label???? I sent it back by Fedex but it was an overnight. They made us wait 4 days for our new one and overnighted the non working one. I will never understand that. Now they keep threatening taking away favorite channels. I'm truly annoyed. We are shopping but the choices out there are not very attractive.

This is the second game I have not been able to watch. I am a patriots fan and their games that are a 1 o'clock dish doesn't seem to air. It's not just the patriots games either. Most football games that air at 1 pm on cbs dish don't air. I've talked to a supervisor about this problem and he didn't help me at all. He said that there was nothing he can do about it. So I pay for the football pass and can't even watch the games I want to. I'm very disappointed in dish for not resolving my problem.

After signing up with Dish for a 2-year contract, within 2 months, they discontinued the Speed Channel and within 12 months, my bill went up from $29.99 to $74.99. When the technician came to install the satellite dish, he told me that he would mount it to the side of my house. Without checking with me, he drilled holes through my roof. 18 months later, I have cancelled Dish and still have an ugly mounting unit on my roof. When I have cancelled Comcast or Frontier, they sent me prepaid boxes to return their equipment. With Dish, they charge you for each box. They nickel and dime you every step of the way. VERY DISSATISFIED.

My husband ordered Dish tv and we did not like it at all. The bill was supposed to be 29 dollars, but we were paying 170 dollars. When we finally noticed we called and they said "you forgot to cancel the premium channels." So we canceled them, then they charged us for 2 months at once. They were trying to charge us for a movie that was ordered when no one was home so we called again and they reversed the charge. I wanted to cancel Dish tv and go back to DirecTV because of the price and they said we signed a 2 yr contract. I asked my husband and he said he didn't remember them saying he was signing for that, and Dish tv told us that in order to cancel their service we have to pay 30 or more a month to pay for early termination for the next yr. What the!!!!!!!! That's the same as their low package so now we are stuck with them. Now we are moving and being charged 100 dollars but their ad states, "You pack your boxes and we will move your services for free," where is the free if we are paying for it. Very unhappy with Dish tv. I would not tell anyone to get this service.

We've been with Dish for less than a month. The main box on the hopper system is rebooting every 10 seconds and as a result the other 3 TVs on the system are not working. I was given 4 "options": 1. be without TV for the weekend, 2. be credited for the days we're without the service (that should be a given) or 3. drive to get a new one. Dish can send a tech in two to three days to replace the box or I can drive 70 miles to pick up a new box (that's the closest supplier). Or, get this, I CAN CALL the technician who installed the service and ask if he can come out, if I STILL HAVE HIS NUMBER. Has anyone ever heard of a company that has THE CUSTOMER call the company's technician to replace defective equipment the company installed. BEWARE!

I Have had Dish for Internet for almost a year now! Nothing but problems. Always losing Internet access. Call Dish. Tech checks network. Reset Dish modem and router. Internet will work for a short time then stop working. Also Dish has limits on data usage 10 Gigs. That will not last very long. After 10 gigs are used up Dish will slow down the Internet speed. So slow that nothing downloads. That is how they get you! Add more data. Then your monthly bill go! Best advice Don't go with Dish Network!

I was promised a service by sales and lied to! Excellent Service Technician! Technician could not believe Dish's Customer Service and the service I original plan I agree to.. Lots of hidden cost that is not told to consumer. I was so on 20 GB, and only got 10 GB. When I tried to correct this problem I got the runaround, and the upcharges! Dish would not help me and wanted to charge me $1000.00 Cancel Fee. Dish told technician to remove equipment. I wanted full credit, but no such process exist. Agent ** was very rude. I kept my cool, but with no resolve. It would 10 days approx to look at what I was told my word against Dish's Agent..! So beware, not recommended - poor service! I would be fired at work if I operated in Customer Service this way! I was sold a package of goods! - That was changed at the service technician install equipment, and now can not get out of being charged $1000 in fee to stop this roller coasters.

My DC was compromised. I call dish to pay using my bank account info while I wait for my new card. They tell me it was declined. I call my bank ready to fight because they told me everything was unfrozen. Bank said there is nothing wrong on this end and that no one has tried to run anything. I call dish back and they tell me it's me and I need to be better with my money! I have been trying all day to make a payment to them. Funny all my other bills I was updating over the phone and Internet worked just fine. They kept telling me it was not on their end. Truly feel like they are trying to get late fees out of me!

Lots of great programs to watch but... I am on limited budget and told them so at time of getting this service. My bill is always huge. It seems I'm always paying on this account. And every time I look online my bill is 170.00. I hate disputes. Easy going easy to manage is my motto. I had to take off auto pay because I'm afraid they'll do like a well known wireless provider did last year and wipe me out depleting my bank account. A total nightmare.

We have been really screwed by this company. My husband was relocated and we were told our transfer of service would be free. Not true. We were charged $100 and told we would have to wait 3wks for install. Well we waited........ tech shows up at 5:10pm and his estimated time was between 8-5 so there you go. Then because of trees he couldn't install I insisted and he went and brought a supervisor to explain. So DISH can't provide the service yet have hit us with our 264 monthly bill, 675 in termination fees, and we need to return their equipment. Oh yeah we were told we would be responsible to remove and trash our dishes from previous address. What an awful company dish is. Please avoid at all cost DISHTV.

I requested cancellation when my contract expired & was told someone would contact me to pick up the equipment. A month later, I received another bill from Dish & no one ever picked up the dish, box, etc. When I called to inquire, the rep was not helpful. I asked three times to speak to a supervisor. When I finally got a supervisor on the phone, she agreed to credit my account but informed me I would have to send the equipment back at my own expense - roughly $20. There is no local drop off location. This is an unexpected "charge back" and I'm extremely disappointed in Dish's business practices.

This is to serve to help others with their complaints against Dish NetWork LLC. Dish Net Work LLC is company that conducts itself with FRAUDULENT PRACTICES. We contacted this company back in Sept 2013 to acquire television network services upon completion of installation of their equipment within our home by a person who represented himself to be a Dish Network service technician. My wife was told to sign and initial a BLANK cell phone screen with nothing on the screen except a single line to sign upon (which was the equivalent as signing a blank piece of paper). When she asked what this was for she was told it was simply confirming that the equipment was properly installed. I was also told that I needed to present the first month payment on her credit card, which she did for $49.95.

10/11/2014 Digital Dish came out to install 1 hopper with sling and a wired Joey. Problems started from the installation of the hopper. The coaxial sparked when the installer tried to screw the coaxial into the hopper. He then contacted his supervisor many times and informed me he had to unground the outside dish. The system finally booted up. The installer went into the other room to install the Joey. A few minutes later he came out and informed me that the Joey receiver was fried, because he said my outlets were hot. He took me outside to the meter where the main power came into the house telling me it was hot also. He then told me to call my power company, and I did. AEP came out the same day, and stated the power coming from outside into the house was perfect. And that the Dish installer was wrong.

I had TV go to loss of service called Dish. I had to talk to three people. Then they said they could not fix it so they wanted to send a person out and charge me for the service call on their Dish.

Sad that Dish doesn't care about the viewers!!! Outside of a very few channels and NBC, CBS just to mention some & we can hardly watch what is put on Dish. If it's not bad language it's nudity. We will be watching a programs and it's interesting however, without warning there goes bad language and some nudity. We know Dish doesn't care what the Discovery channel is putting on. Even Gold Rush has such bad language that it's hard to watch most of the time. Be careful - Discovery is getting large enough to start its own TV Network. You could be out has the largest TV Network and Discovery in. The word is... Watch Them.

Tried to get another box installed for another tv set. Dish was no help to me - wanted me to give a credit card no. that I did not want to give. So I still don't have the extra box I need to watch my tv. Very upset with Dish Network. Soon as my times ends I will never have Dish Network again.

I decided to switch to DishTV after poor experiences from a cable and another satellite provider. After contacting Dish, I was set up with an installer for the next day. The installer arrived about an hour late and profusely apologized, saying he had a challenge with his previous installation and wanted to stay until he was assured it was working properly. The installer, Johnny, used a laser to discern the optimum location for the satellite dish and then he trimmed several trees (!) to make sure the dish was located for the best reception. Then, Johnny took great care to install the inside boxes just right and even ran extra cable so my daughters could relocate their TVs to other locations if they wished. Each location was thoroughly tested and the remotes labeled for the rooms. He even helped me in hooking up my new wireless modem.

We need more time for downloads as many people in our home do College online, k12 online as well as banking and many other projects that have to be done on a regular basis. We end up having to pay for more g-bytes each month and it is getting to be very expensive. We got dish thinking it would be better but we can't even get Netflix or watch movies or any of the things you advertise because time is gone before the month is over. We feel like we lose out on many things because you don't have an unlimited data plan. I wish we had known this before signing up with dish because it sure isn't what you advertise on television.

Upon retiring and then moving, the Townhome I bought will not allow the Dish stuck on the townhome. As I explained this, they pretty much told me that I could go Screw myself. When I told them I had had DISH for 5 years and they told me if I moved, I could just cancel with no cancellation fees. Now I am stuck with a $300 plus bill and all I have is ss now. Just a bunch of sorry people that you have to deal with.

I had to cancel because my mother died and my house will be empty and their only option was for me to pay $360 to cancel service. I will never recommend or have dish again.

Nov 21, 2014, I had an Oral agreement which is legal and binding with Michelle in NV on a RECORDED SALES CALL. Dish Network violated the contract. Breach of contract is a legal cause of action in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract by non-performance or interference with the other party's performance. A fundamental breach (or repudiatory breach) is a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract. In addition that party is entitled to sue for damages. I have numerous calls and emails with various representatives of dish network. Services were cancelled as of December 3rd.

In a game of brinksmanship CBS and DISH are screwing the consumer. I called Dish tonight when CBS was taken off the satellite, they offered to take $10 off my bill for 3 months. Big deal. I contracted with them to get two things, which I stipulated when I agreed to the two-year contract: local San Francisco channels, and local sports on CSN Bay Area. I have one last 1 out of five (FOX, CBS, NBC, ABC, CSNBA). I want 20% off my bill or cancel my service. I am tired of being the pawn in DISH's game of chicken.

On December/02/2014. I called the 1-800. Number Spoken to a customer service representative. Made a payment of $14.54. I then set up auto pay for the month of January. The customer service representative said I was all done & no payment until January. December/03/2014. I was billed by auto pay for the same amount of $14.54. I called to speak with a customer service representative on December/03. I told they couldn't stop the auto pay & there was nothing they could do. They had to charge me even when they saw that I called in the day before to make a payment. I would say they are low life rats.

Called to refer a family member and everything was done over the phone with a dish rep. Using the certificate I received in the mail from dish was used to confirm the referral and told I would get a credit for $5 a month for ten months. After several months passed by, no $5 credit. Called Dish to inquire. They had no record of the referral and could not find the certificate # that was used. They couldn't find the record of the conversation with their rep. What a scam!!

I was in the market to get new cable & internet service. I did some shopping and thought Dish was worth a try. What a colossal mistake. The "technician" came at 10 am, installed 2 gigantic enormous satellite dishes on my roof. One for internet, one for TV. Then he left for an hour and a half because he didn't have a part. He returned and was "finished" at about 4 pm. That's a 6-hour install, an entire waste of a day for me. He stated that the internet modem had to "finish downloading" before I could use it. Then he left.

They want you to be with them. Even if there is no facing place where to put the antenna, you can not cancel. So we had to pay the early cancellation because they couldn't be able to put the service here. It's been three times that we moved and they just want our money!! This people is trained to take money not to give service. Professional thieves!! Watch out!

I have only been a customer of Dish Network for 8 months. I have been extremely dissatisfied with the internet. I have called several times and complained. I use the wifi for school and webinars for work. I was basically told from the representative the wifi would not be adequate for my purposes and was rude. I was told I couldn't speak with anyone else. I wasn't looking to terminate my internet, until I was told it would not suffice for my needs. It’s completely unreasonable to pay for a service to be able to do school work and not be able to at least do that much! It’s a MUST in my home to have wifi, and half the time, I don't even have it. Customer service is apparently a thing of the past with this company. As I see others feel the same way!

I have had DISH less than a year and have had nothing but trouble. At first every day and sometimes several times a day the video would freeze, then the audio would stop, then the screen would go black. The remote and receiver stop working but I could turn tv off and on. I have contacted DISH on multiple occasions and I am on the third receiver. Each contact I was asked to unplug and plug in the equipment which would mean moving the tv. I repeatedly stated that I am disabled and crawling around on the floor and moving the tv was not possible for me. Even after repeating I was disabled they continued to tell me to move things around and unplug/plug equipment. Now every day at 4:00 pm the video freezes, then the audio then the screen goes black. There is no sense in calling because they have NO clue what is wrong. Cannot wait until my contract ends so I can get rid of DISH.

Pick a day. You will get different answers. I have been on the phone once a week. I hear we can reduce satellite TV charges. But, if we reduce or cancel satellite internet, we have to "stand in line" for the next signal. I did not have to stand in line when it was installed. Right there, pronto. When I said (comparing to cancelling the WHOLE deal) the cancelling went up from 300 to over 700. I really don't understand how a company can treat people this way. Refusing to pay may be my only way.

I called today to add an additional box in another bedroom, Rep stated that I would have to extend my contract for another year and that I would have to pay 95.00 for the box and a 50.00 Tech fee plus a 12.00 monthly service fee. When I heard all that I became angry, I understand the 12.00 monthly fee but all the other stuff is a ripoff. When I started the service 2 years ago I was paying 65.00 because all the discounts you get for the first year but after the first year they charged you for all of the discounts and since you are in a 2-year contract, it's not much you can do.

My house was flooded one month after I switched to Dish Network, forcing me to move. When I got into my new place, the technician discovered that I could not get a Dish signal at my new home. While the technician was still at my house, we called customer service about the situation. After several discussions, we agreed to cancel my service. They informed me that I would owe $440 for canceling my contract early and that they would charge it to my card on file. I had lost that card during my moving process, so I wasn't concerned that they would charge anything to my account. I planned to pay them $50 a month by check until the balance was cleared. I hadn't heard anything from them in several weeks and I never received the box to return my equipment.

The installation technician installed the service at my previous apartment and got me to sign something on a tablet which I thought is the installation complete confirmation. I moved after 6 months and the new community doesn't allow dish to be installed. DISH says I have a two year contract which has a fine print that reads it is my responsibility if there is any reason why dish cannot be installed and I have to pay $360 cancellation fee. Absolutely hate this service. I will add a receipt here once I get my final bill.

DISH has many misleading points in their contracts. The agent tells you that whatever program package you sign up with you can keep. Within 6 months of my sign up I had 4 of the stations I signed for GONE. As of today, 16 months later, I have lost approximately 16 of the programs in my package, not to mention a huge $50 a month jump for less service. I was suppose to lock in at approx. $46 after the first year. But, it jumped to $79. I had to call constantly and argue my contract. After 3 months of arguing the $79, they put me at approx. $54. Still over the contract agreement! It is a constant harassment and irritation to constantly babysit and keep ahead of the DISH scams to squeeze every dime out of you. I am dropping DISH 3 months before my contract is up because they violated their contract themselves. Everyone BEWARE. None of these companies give a rat's behind about you. They just want what's in your pockets.