Tony is right, when using the 30 second skip, I sometimes see Victoria Secret commercials and stop to watch them. But I never stopped for any other comercials.
CBS CEO Les Moonves left no doubt where he and the media company stand regarding Dish Network’s controversial ad-skipping technology offered on its new Hopper digital video recorder to subscribers.
Speaking Sept. 12 at the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch 2012 Media, Entertainment, Communications Conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Moonves said that should Dish prevail in court later this month, CBS would take its programming off the satellite TV operator’s bundled programming.
“Hopper can’t exist,” Moonves said. “If Hopper exists and [Dish] wantto eliminate our commercials, we will not be in business with them. It’s pure and simple.”
Not really. I don't think they can force affiliates to refuse to do business with Dish. And if they do, the affiliates will want to be compensated for the financial loss
im sure affiliates have licensing agreements and carriage agreements with the network
thats where it will come into play
Teehar said:If dish wins and CBS or any other network says we won't do business then I foresee the fcc stepping in.The negotiating in good faith clause will come into play.Charlie probably had that in mind when he moved ahead with autohop.The way I see it if CBS pulls off of Dish because of being on the short end of the ruling,they would in effect have to pull off dtv and every other cable system.Don't see how they could offer other carriers their service and exclude dish.Going to be very interesting to say the least.
Maybe I should call old Les up and let him know that if DISH wins in court (and I expect them to) that I am hearing that DIRECTV has its Auto Skip technology all ready to go and they plan on calling it the Genie and it could be sent to DIRECTV boxes as soon as the ruling is released. (In fact if you search DIRECTV has already trademarked the name.
Is the hop feature worth POing off the networks? We already lost AMC over this feature that don't work that great anyhow. Most times I'm halfway to the end of the commercial by the time it kicks in. What else will we lose when other channels run by the networks come up for renewal?
AMC has nothing to do with the Hop feature, it's not even hoppable.