Fox News Sues Echostar

[BoisePaul]

yes fox news has always been in the second tier and that is dish's most widely distributed package. so dish is fine, fox is nuts

Is it? Some could use the logic that the first tier is the most widely distributed because it's included in its entirety in the second tier and beyond.

 

[Dish VIP]

Looks like Dish stock closed at a 52-week low today. Ha!

FNC has always been in the basic pkg. over at D*. It has always bugged me that E* requires more $$$ to get Fox News Channel.

 

[rad]

It says it was a 1998 contract - strange that it's taken almost 10 years for a suit to be filed.

OK, is this something that's supposed to be fluid over time? Has another programming package taken over the top spot for number of customers and E* hasn't moved Fox News to it and that's the cause for the suit?

 

[tigerfan33]

Oh hum another day another lawsuit against Dish.

 

[Dgenx321]

How long before Charlie pulls Fox News off Dish??

 

[Neutron]

Here goes even more of a price increase....

If I remember right, last time Charlie had a spat with a content provider he said he did it to keep the cost down. Right after that was, you guessed it, a price increase.

 

[foghorn2]

How long before Charlie pulls Fox News off Dish??

I hope he pulls [Fox] News and all the other crap fox owns ASAP.

 

[Yes616]

How long before Charlie pulls Fox News off Dish??

I won't miss it.

 

[Dgenx321]

LOL, Charlie isn't going to bankrupt himself.

 

[JamesJ]

if they pull Fox News, That would be a big deal for me...as we are currently at my parents house and thats all my dad watches

 

[ahope577]

How long before Charlie pulls Fox News off Dish??

Oh if only...........

 

[Dgenx321]

Would this be a bad time to ask when Dish is going to add Fox Business??

 

[Yes616]

Would this be a bad time to ask when Dish is going to add Fox Business??

About 2 years after it goes HD.

 

[air.jason]

I bet that this is either 1. A move to get Fox Business on E* or 2. It worked for HDNET why not do it for Fox News. Maybe they will sue for Nat Geo next.

 

[Van]

Well 6 years of installing dish and top 100 and all of its reincarnations was the biggest draw with the basic package being second and the at250 and AEP being the last. Now maybe in this year something has changed and another channel has become significantly viewed over at200 or atleast through what ever source fox news has.

 

[kstuart]

Like Duh - only days until we read:

" In return for the agreement to carry Fox Business Network, Fox has dropped its lawsuit... "

You read it here first (no inside info, though, I just know how these guys think by now).

 

[mdwatt]

Read between the lines guys. Who is the parent company of Fox and it's affiliates - News Corp. Who owns Directv - News Corp. Hello!?!?!?!?!

 

[steve4810]

Like Duh - only days until we read:

" In return for the agreement to carry Fox Business Network, Fox has dropped its lawsuit... "

You read it here first (no inside info, though, I just know how these guys think by now).

BINGO! I think you've got them pegged.

Great insight.

Kudos.

 

[jacmyoung]

Looks like Dish stock closed at a 52-week low today. Ha!

FNC has always been in the basic pkg. over at D*. It has always bugged me that E* requires more $$$ to get Fox News Channel.

Boy am I glad I unloaded both my meager E* and D* stocks a week back.

No one seemed to read the wording by FN, "the most widely distributed package" on E* in FN's view became something other than AT200 since 01/07, not before, hence the lawsuit.

I don't know how certain FN is of E*'s data, or E* simply did not pay attention when AT100 over-taken AT200 as the most widely distributed package after 2006.

Or maybe E* can simply point to its own data to dispute FN's claim. I also found it hard to believe AT100 had taken over AT200, which IMO would be the only way FN has a claim.

 

[BoisePaul]

Who owns Directv - News Corp. Hello!?!?!?!?!

Not anymore... Liberty media did some sort of share-swapping deal and now controls the shares that News Corp. used to control.