vie. vi â wetteifern; (Comm) â konkurrieren; to vie with somebody for something â mit jdm um etw wetteifern; to vie with somebody to do something â mit jdm darum wetteifern, etw zu tun; they are vying for the championship â sie kaempfen kÃ¤mpfen um Die. meisterschaft
Like DirecTV, Dish includes HBO for free for the first three months. From then on, it costs $18 a month in addition to your regular service (current best deal is $20 a month for first year, then $33/month thereafter).
At $15 a month, the price is similar to how much HBO costs to have the service bundled with your cable or satellite package. The high price is a sign that the premium cable channel wants to approach the service cautiously, and wants to limit the number of subscribers it loses under the traditional bundled cable model.