Indeed it is.
And the astronomical price is driven by channel providers that charge Dish, DirecTV, cable, YouTube TV, etc to broadcast their channels.
Dish is missing channels right now because Tegna, which provides some of their local channels (perhaps among others) want a large price increase. If Dish were to submit to their demands, the customer will need to pay more to offset the cost. Dish is pushing back on this.
But this happens with ever tv provider. All of them.