U.S. HISPANIC
Univision Communications Inc. reply to DISH: The US$5 refund is yet another example of DISH drastically undervaluing Univision
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 31 de julio de 2018
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Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) issued a statement regarding DISH offer of refunding US$5 per month to DishLATINO and Sling Latino package subscribers.
“With this announced refund, DISH recognizes what its Hispanic customers already know to be true: without Univision networks and local stations, there is no DishLATINO and certainly no Best of Spanish on Sling TV. Given that our networks account for 60% of Spanish-language viewing on DishLATINO, their US$5 refund is yet another example of DISH drastically undervaluing Univision and Spanish-language programming, as well as disregarding why Latino viewers have paid DISH for its services. As such, we remind our valued viewers who subscribe to Dish services that our services are available on many other platforms,” said Univision in the statement.
Univision adds in its communication that the company returned to DISH corporate offices last week at which time they offered several paths forward to show DISH how serious they are about resolving this dispute amicably. “And despite Univision’s good-faith and meaningful offer, DISH responded with an offer that was essentially the same as the one they previously offered back in June. We remain open and willing to negotiate with Dish at any time and ready to return to their offices this week should they choose to be constructive to the process. Our audience and our community deserve to be treated fairly by DISH and we will continue to fight on their behalf,” ends the statement.
