Isnt Fox Broadcasting one of the plaintiffs?Greg Bimson said:DirecTV was affected. They were sued and the judgment was issued in 1999. Echostar stalled it out in the courts all these years, so the process has taken much longer.
Isnt Fox Broadcasting one of the plaintiffs?Greg Bimson said:DirecTV was affected. They were sued and the judgment was issued in 1999. Echostar stalled it out in the courts all these years, so the process has taken much longer.
Yes. So were CBS, ABC and NBC, before they settled out of court. Along with FOX are the affiliate boards of all four networks. Even if FOX drops, the affiliate boards are still pressing the matter.juan said:Isnt Fox Broadcasting one of the plaintiffs?
Explain to me how being a plaintiff in a lawsuit where the defendant has been found guilty is abusing monopoly power?Bob Murdoch said:And wasn't one of the conditions of the DirecTV purchase that D* couldn't abuse its incestuous relationship to exert Monopoly power?
Once again, you need to define the settlements other companies have accepted from Dish Network. Maybe FOX will not be satisfied until all customers in their areas are requalified.Bob Murdoch said:It is abusing monopoly power by refusing to agree to a settlement that other companies HAVE agreed to make. They play hardball and drive E* into the ground by killing hundreds of thousands of subscriptions potentially driving them to YOUR subsidiary. FOX's losses from lost DN subscribers are much lower than D*'s potential gains from driving a wedge between E* and their subscribers and pulling them into the D* fold....
Vaporware or not, Dish Network has a competitive advantage by illegally providing distant networks. Providing those network may have actually inflated their growth.Bob Murdoch said:They can't win it on HD offerings (contrary to their vaporware ads last year), so they win it in the courts by eliminating the competition's competitive advantage.
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And even if FOX settles, it won't stop the affiliate boards from pressing forward.