My husband and I live a meager but comfortable life in the Eastern Panhandle of WV (the part that looks like a foot jutting out between MD, VA and PA). I am on workers comp but my husband works full time for a local company. We make it ok but things could be better.
Recently, we had our Comcast bill go up quite a lot. We were aniticipating this as our one year agreement had expired, so I called to see what type of "bundle" they'd offer us being that we were customers for quite a while.
The Customer Service rep offered us a package which was a very, very basic cable subscription with our "blast" internet for $80/month. Only a couple of channels were included that we watch quite a bit of so I asked if there was anything else as the rate had risen quite a bit - from $120/month to $180/month for our current channel line up. The rep replied that if the current line-up didn't fit our income that WE needed to make some changes and that Comcast wasn't responsible for our financial situation.
I remained as polite as possible, advised the young woman that we would be cancelling our cable shortly and ended the call.
NOW - DirecTV offered a similar package of viewing pleasures with some extra programming we probably will never watch but offered NFL Sunday Ticket at no extra charge the first year of a two year contract AND at a very palatable price even in the second year of the agreement. I discussed it with my husband and he agreed we would order. So we did.
Then came the derecho and storms that had us without power for nearly a week, so the installation was postponed. After getting back home there was much cleaning up to do so the installation was postponed for yet another week.
TODAY I hear that Viacom and DirecTV have a disagreement over a 30% price increase that apparently all the other cable/satellite companies paid but that DirecTV refuses to pay on principle.
I AGREE TOTALLY WITH DIRECTV!!!!!!
Apparently the agreement was reached some 7 years ago before the housing marked exploded, Wall Street fell, and Bernie Madoff made-off with everyone's money. Not to mention the fact that there has been an enormous unemployment rate AND many are still in the throes of losing homes, jobs and other life events which effect us which aren't reported in the statistics that the politicians throw around.
What VIACOM is doing is very petty. Taking shows away from DirecTV is one thing but to deprive everyone is another thing all together.
GROW UP VIACOM!!!! Everyone is entitled to the American dream, not just big money!!
