Charlie Ergen being one of the worst CEOs / board members on the planet, sure doesn't help.

I'm not sure where they went wrong honestly as they kept adding features and advertised a lot. It must have been price? I recall it being expensive to get started when I looked in to it ages ago but figured they could compete there if they tried. There's also the stigma that it was seen as the, "hill-billy's TV" that only trailer parks and rednecks used because they had no other choice.

I've been generally happy with my Dish service. Sure, every couple years I have to play the "you raised my price so lower it or I am going to just go to Youtube tv". They always do lower the price and I consider my payment to be good seeing as I have more channels than Youtube TV.

Even during the big storms we had in socal last year, my service never went out.

I appreciate that I can add the Dish app to a Firestick and enjoy my Dish content from any wifi source. And I appreciate being able to watch my DVR stuff from anywhere.

Sure, you can do all of this with Youtube TV but they just keep raising prices. I will keep Dish as long as my price does not go up. If it does, I may go to Cox or bite the bullet and go to Youtube tv.

I have Netflix and Amazon video so I cringe at the thought of having to buy multiple streaming services ala carte.

That Dish / DirecTV is just so wild to hear about. I spent 10 years of my life installing those kinds satellite systems (and others) in residential, commercial, and hospitality environments. It was wild. Started out as good money, that only always ever steadily got worse over time. It felt real good pulling in $600 to $800 a day, back when bananas weren't $5 a piece. I left that career juuuust as they were peaking in subscriber numbers.

It must be surreal working in an industry that you know is circling the drain for well over a decade. Your business WILL fail. It IS failing, dying, inevitably, day by day, and there is nothing you can do to stop it. Requires a different mindset I suppose...