Have you heard of "Hopper" from dish network
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
June 9, 2012 12:03pm CST
Many of us love to watch Television, and most of us hate to hanging on with those commercials. With dish network, they promote such new option for their customers called "Hopper". You choose this option to skip the commercial, which you basically watch every single show with commercial - free. That is a great option for all of us of course. But, would those Television provide us with those programs everyday not making any money at all, since their large slice of profits are coming from commercial advertising?
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@Fishmomma (11658)
• United States
10 Jun 12
I first heard of the hopper because of Farmville a Facebook Game. The animal sits there watching television, which is cute. I'll admit feel like the last poster not all commercials are bad and some I don't mind watching a few times.
I know that commercials help pay for the shows and some are so costly to make. I'm aware I'll have to pay in some way like higher cable rates for watching certain channels or the cable company offering me less channels for me to view. Several cities in this area don't have certain basic channels because the cable company felt the fees the network wanted were to high.
@dobsyto (298)
• Bulgaria
9 Jun 12
Well yeah there is that kind of option but you maybe know that everyone TV program makes money from the adds. Well I think that if someone want to use that option he should pay something like for a month to use it. Like all says where are the people there is the money.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
9 Jun 12
I am not sure how they record that we've watched a commercial to begin with. It could be that as long as they see that the t.v. is on, it's recorded as being watched. Or it could be that Dish pays the companies money to be able to "hop". It might also be that you have to hop per commercial. Some people leave the room regardless whilst a commercial is on.
@PhillyDreamer (3039)
• United States
9 Jun 12
I think a lot of networks would start charging Dish network for the right to show their programming without commercials. Ultimately that cost will be passed on to the customers of Dishnetwork. Commercials might be annoying, but people have to remember its the commercials that bring us the programs we like to watch.




