After 8 years without cricket, Directv decides that it wants to come back into the cricket action. They broadcasted WC 96, and it went down as a disaster.
Then they dropped Zee TV and TV Asia. Now they seem to be picking up some desi channels too. People already have Dishnetwork, they will not go to Directv for their programming.
Dishnetwork disapoints me too. They lost lots of customers for the Aus vs. Pak series because they were unable to bid enough.