DISH -VS- VOOM - A Settlement has been reached!

[aquaman67]

What package is AMC normally in?


250 or 200?

I forgot.

 

[Fireman17]

Woohoo Happy AMC back wonder if they are going keep HDNetmovies and Axs.tv channels and just add AMC back and IFC..

 

[mike123abc]

Did I win or did someone else? (In price is right rules.)

Looks like my prediction was closest with out going over.
I predicted $400 Million. Yet some called that outrageous.
In the end Dish Paid out $400 Million plus about $300 Million for the Wireless licenses that they wanted all along for a total of $700 Million.

Our Dish Court Reporter guy said to me
"Anyway, I challenge you to look at the facts. Earlier you predicted this case would cost Dish $400M. I find that figure to be outrageous considering Voom had already invested 300M in the 'service' "

Actually according to news sources it is $700 million of which only $80 counts towards the wireless. So, $620 million payment... http://news.yahoo.com/dish-voom-reach-settlement-195722989--finance.html

 

[HDRoberts]

Thanks for 4 1/2 years of lively discussion everyone! At least we all finally know happened in this case...exactly what Voom claimed in their amended complaint back May 2008.

We will never really know what really happened. None of us were sitting in on the discussions in 2005-2008. But it does become one giant moot point.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

One thing for sure is the $700 million is coming from somewhere, and it sure aint Charlie's pocket. Im sure we will start seeing the effects of this come Febuary 1st when their price freeze ends and they raise everyones rates.

Yeah and for that $700 million he got all of Cablevisions wireless spectrum. Not a bad deal for DISH.

 

[emtjim]

TIVO - Done

VOOM/AMC - Done

Now Dish lets get it done with ESPN/ABC so we can get ESPNU in HD!

 

[satjay]

Yeah and for that $700 million he got all of Cablevisions wireless spectrum. Not a bad deal for DISH.

What does the wireless spectrum hold for the future? I was wondering what that means for dish

 

[jdmart]

DISH is showing "AMC is Back" on the Preview Channel and saying it's also a Free Preview but it doesn'say for how long.

 

[Juan]

should be a good uplink report this week

 

[Tampa8]

Wow, only took Dish 4 months and a lawsuit to solve this programming dispute.

One thing for sure is the $700 million is coming from somewhere, and it sure aint Charlie's pocket. Im sure we will start seeing the effects of this come Febuary 1st when their price freeze ends and they raise everyones rates.

Sorry this ended overall not too bad for Dish. I KNOW you were wishing for something harsher.

 

[SQUEEZON]

Also of interest was this: As part of the settlement, Dish will pay $700 million in cash to AMC and its sibling company, Cablevision Systems Corp. CVC -0.70% Included in the total is $80 million for Dish to purchase wireless-spectrum licenses from Cablevision, the companies said.

 

[sevendust2412]

Are we to assume a new HD carriage agreement was not discussed and only AMC will be back in HD? Would love to see Sundance and IFC in HD. This news made my night.

 

[jagowar]

Any word on which packages its going to be part of? I know right now they are doing that free preview but I was hoping it might drop down to at120 (I'm a new customer but I understand it was on at200 when it left).

 

[EricfromTx]

This is wonderful news!

 

[indestructible]

So, being that I didn't have the package AMC was in before, and now I have the channel, is it safe to assume after a certain period that I'll lose the channel once they readjust it and add it back to the higher packages? I'm happy I get to watch Walking Dead tonight (instead of having to catch it online the next day), but I'm guessing I'll only have it temporarily, right? No way AMC is just going to permanently get put in packages it wasn't in before, I'm guessing?

 

[jdmart]

Here's the lawsuit settlement details: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57536897-93/amc-programming-returns-to-dish-with-lawsuit-settlement/

 

[Tampa8]

It's been stated by Dish it's being offered to everyone at the moment. (Freeview) Best guess it will go back to the packages it was in before.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The question is how much Cablevision paid for the spectrum originally. Wouldn't surprise me if it was a lot more.

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[Tampa8]

Just talked to online Dish chat... they have "no information" about getting AMC on tonight.

And you asked them that question why? Everyone here is making it all up? Information given here can take, with no exaggeration, weeks and more to reach and be understood by the phone CSR's...

 

[dishcomm]

Cablevision/AMC ends EchoStar litigation

http://advanced-television.com/2012/10/21/cablevisionamc-ends-echostar-litigation/


The litigation between Cablevision/VOOM and EchoStar/Dish has been settled out of court. EchoStar will pay $700 million in cash to Cablevision, and in addition will re-start transmissions of the AMC channels onto the Dish Network DTH system. This means AMC, IFC, Sundance and WEtv channels get reinstated as part of the “multi-year agreement”, effective October 21[SUP]st[/SUP].

Additionally, Dish has agreed to convey its 20 per cent interest in VOOM HD back to Rainbow (part of the Cablevision family of companies).
The agreement sees an end to the increasingly bitter litigation between the two parties, and where Cablevision was arguing for $2.4 billion in compensation, and the court case was looking increasingly challenging for EchoStar.

As long as I get to keep HD NET movies they can put a 24 hour Sesame Street channel.