Dish Network is by far a superior company than DirecTV. If they weren't, DirecTV wouldn't be hurting like they are. Dish has also given more customers to Viacom and MTV than everyone else COMBINED. Dish has continued to stomp the living daylights out of DirecTV over the past several years. Over the last 2 years (eight business quarters), Dish trounced DirecTV seven of those eight quarters. The reason? Their customer service is better, promotions for new customers are better, more options for new customers, they have promotions in place for existing customers, flexible payment options, more options in programming, less expensive programming, and a million other things. Dish is also offering an additional 4 channels (one of which an Encore movie channel) to their customers during the dispute. In my opinion, as a Dish retailer, Viacom is the greedy one here. Dish has done nothing unreasonable. Dish has CBS affiliates in over 100 markets around the US, 15 of which are owned by Viacom. Dish even offered to pay Viacom as much as Dish was paying the most expensive CBS affiliate, and Viacom refused. Dish is not trying to make enemies with anyone. They are a very generous company. On and around 9/11, when the CBS tower on the WTC was taken out and New York cable customers were left without a CBS, Dish Network offered up their feed to the cable system for FREE.
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Originally posted by Plan9
I just switched from Dishnetwork to Direct TV. In addition, the new Direct TV deal includes free Tivo! I am a happy man 
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Dish has been giving hi def receivers and DVR's away long before DirecTV. Why do you suppose DirecTV is giving TiVo away now? Because they would like to gain some ground on Dish, who currently has more DVR units in homes than anyone else.
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Originally posted by agball
I agree, they blow!! I switched to HiDef Cable 3 mos ago for less $$
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What do you pay per month for the HD package, and what do you get as part of it?
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Originally posted by erion
Now in all fairness, Viacom did actually ask for $.06 / month per customer more to allow Dish network to continue to have access to its channels.
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Incorrect. Viacom actually asked somewhere between 2 and 3 dollars more per customer. The exact number is not known, but I do know that is slighly less than ESPN, which is between 2 and 3 dollars per customer. Charlie Ergen, CEO of Dish, publicly announced that if Viacom would accept an increase of $.06, that he would sign the contract tomorrow.