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The Los Angeles Times quotes Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen who says networks have to be more selective because of rising programming costs. He's warned that Dish is ready to drop CNN. Because despite it's occasionally exhaustive coverage. CNN doesn't have the merits it used to. 20 years ago, CNN was a must- have channel, but it's not a top 10 network anymore, unless they find the plane. Yikes. It does not help that Dish is feeling the crunch from both ends. It dropped around 12, 000 accounts in the 3rd quarter as cheaper. More specialized offerings from the likes of Amazon and Netflix gained steam. It all comes down to the cost of content and that's not a situation you need to dish. DirecTV and AMC for example are an increasingly public impasse over broadcast rights. And access to massively popular shows like The Walking Dead. The zombie show in particularly is occasionally more popular than Sunday night football. But DirecTV had warned it's subscribers. If AMC doesn't cut it some kind of slack. They'll have to go seek brains elsewhere. This is happening in sports too. This year Time Warner Cable made headlines and even garnered FCC warnings when it set quote excessive prices for Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast rights. A bunch of networks. And by extension their subscribers sat out most of the regular season rather than pay up. But Dish at least is prepared to try new things to stay afloat. It's planning a slimmed down over the top service for release by the end of the year. Which will offer some of its programming for a $ 30 monthly fee. 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