DISH Reaches Long Term Agreement with DISNEY / ESPN / ABC

[Gobucks]

Or one could be thankful that the "big worry" in their life is just a TV channel and not something much more serious.

I understood you too. I was just kind of adding to what you were saying. Some people here

 

[hvarma2008]

Are ESPN and the rest of ABC/Disney channels going dark tonight?

 

[Scherrman]

Are ESPN and the rest of ABC/Disney channels going dark tonight?

No reason to believe they will right at this moment.

 

[wingnut10]

ESPNU HD @ midnight?

 

[syphix]

ESPNU HD @ midnight?

Almost guaranteed, NO.

 

[LASooner]

Does anyone ever actually read what Scott writes in this thread? Or are we trolling?

 

[Mister Coke]

Soap Net HD...

 

[navychop]

I'll bet nothing will change at all. Then later, when all the fine details are settled, we may see some additions.

 

[bellevuecoug]

There is no new contract yet (?), right? If there is no new contract, how can ESPN still be on tomorrow? A new temporary agreement?

Per Scott's note, the hangup is digital rights. I hope there is more to this than just ESPN360 ~ a lot of us are hoping for something more ~ ESPNU in HD, Disney Jr., ABC Fam in HD, etc. Business as usual tomorrow with no new info would be frustrating. How many more pages can we speculate in this thread??

 

[satjay]

There is no new contract yet (?), right? If there is no new contract, how can ESPN still be on tomorrow? A new temporary agreement? Per Scott's note, the hangup is digital rights. I hope there is more to this than just ESPN360 ~ a lot of us are hoping for something more ~ ESPNU in HD, Disney Jr., ABC Fam in HD, etc. Business as usual tomorrow with no new info would be frustrating. How many more pages can we speculate in this thread??

In regard to still having ESPN/Disney tomorrow, both sides can agree to keep talking and keep signal up

 

[Rey]

Does anyone ever actually read what Scott writes in this thread? Or are we trolling?

Some of it may be folks not reading the posts while others just seem to be very worried about losing these channels.

 

[Scherrman]

I'll bet nothing will change at all. Then later, when all the fine details are settled, we may see some additions.

I'm siding with you on this one Navy. I don't think anything will change tomorrow. Maybe down the road they'll work on the other channels.

 

[psdstu]

I'm siding with you on this one Navy. I don't think anything will change tomorrow. Maybe down the road they'll work on the other channels.

Your probably correct that nothing will change tomm...... and then maybe some point down the road we might see some other channels....... how long will that be...... I'm sure I'm not the only person who mistakingly thought all this would have been worked out before today......... I should have known better.

 

[hvarma2008]

Maybe we will have a surprise deal to coincide with the deal to avert government shutdown!

 

[Yespage]

Maybe we will have a surprise deal to coincide with the deal to avert government shutdown!

Unlikely. Boehner refuses to budge on a la carte programming.

 

[Nominal]

In regards to WatchESPN I noticed that in commercials cable companies run to promote it such as this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnzkVC3QQZY

...they use as a selling point that it's "not available on satellite". I wonder if the sticking point is that ESPN promised the Cable Cartels exclusivity in access to the feature to give them an advantage over satellite and ESPN is balking at breaking those commitments.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

DISH and The Walt Disney Company Continue Talks, Extend Contract

Release Date:
Monday, September 30, 2013 6:17 pm MDT


Dateline City:
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & BURBANK, Calif.


ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) have reached a short-term extension with respect to the continued carriage of ESPN; Disney Channel; ABC owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno; ABC Family and other networks from The Walt Disney Company. Details regarding the extension were not announced.

 

[EricfromTx]

DISH and The Walt Disney Company Continue Talks, Extend Contract

Release Date:
Monday, September 30, 2013 6:17 pm MDT


Dateline City:
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & BURBANK, Calif.


ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DISH) have reached a short-term extension with respect to the continued carriage of ESPN; Disney Channel; ABC owned stations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Houston, Raleigh-Durham and Fresno; ABC Family and other networks from The Walt Disney Company. Details regarding the extension were not announced.

So no new contract yet which means no new HD channels for now.

 

[dare2be]

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DISH (NASDAQ: DISH) and The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DISH)

That's one way to handle negotiations...have DISH take over stock ownership of Disney (DISH).

 

[mike123abc]

Essentially Dish agreed to pay ESPN/Disney whatever the final contract decides for programming starting tomorrow until the contract is signed.

It looks like all the Disney properties are on the line (not just ESPN channels).