Dish CEO Says His Customers Don’t Watch AMC Because “They Live In Farms & Ranches”

To all you Dish subscribers who have to go over to your friends' houses to watch Breaking Bad because you no longer have AMC, the satellite service's CEO has a message for you: Stop complaining and don't watch good TV, because he never has.

"I've had satellite television for as long as satellite television has been around and there's never been one minute that I know of anybody in my family, or anybody who's came to my house, has ever watched one second of any of those channels," explained Dish's Charles Ergen about the company's reasons for dropping AMC-owned channels -- AMC, WeTV, IFC, Sundance Channel.

While Ergen restated the company's position that the main sticking point with the AMC negotiations was the broadcasters' insistence on bundling the lower rated channels with AMC, which also airs popular shows like Mad Men and The Walking Dead.

But, he insists, these shows are not anything Dish customers really care about anyway.

"They live in farms and ranches... They have no clue about zombies and New York."

I suppose I should tell all the people here in Philadelphia who have Dish dishes slapped on their roofs that they are actually living on very small farms.

Dish Chairman Says Subscribers Don't Like AMC Shows That Much, Anyway

maybe he ain't lying, outside BB I don't !! with AMC.

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Walking Dead?

Mad Men?

My apartment complex doesn't allow other providers....it's DISH or nothing. [pic]

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My apartment complex doesn't allow other providers....it's DISH or nothing. [pic]

I haven't had a problem with them thus far. Got all the channels I need, but this dispute with AMC is pissing me off. I'm going to miss Hell On Wheels too.