I am with your wife. I miss PTAT and I don't like dealing with OTA conflicts. Hopper 3 and PTAT has me spoiled.
I am with your wife. I miss PTAT and I don't like dealing with OTA conflicts. Hopper 3 and PTAT has me spoiled.
LOL, I didn't do too good in English back in my school days. Could have worded that a little better.
I don't think that necessarily gives Dish more leverage. Dish says "see, we don't have as many subscribers for locals". The broadcaster says "Look at the ratings... more people watch us than watch ESPN."
Not necessarily. If they are all subbing to locals on Dish now and the numbers are what they are, having a percentage switch to OTA does absolutely nothing to changing viewing habits.
Right. So someone watching CBS on Dish drops locals and watches CBS OTA. The station still gets the ratings. Having that person drop locals doesn't really hurt Dish or the local. You claimed it gives Dish more leverage. The more people that drop for OTA, the more DISH is hurt. That's less money they're bringing in to offset their fixed costs to deliver that local.
But it's also less money that Dish is paying to the channel in retrans fees. The amount the local channels lose from the loss of each subscriber is much more than the amount of profit Dish loses from them. It wouldn't hurt against Dish's fixed costs until something like 80% or more of the subscribers were to go OTA only in a market.
I'm not convinced about the bolded. I'm assuming a local is now getting $1.25-$1.50/subscriber/month. I truly don't know. You think having someone drop locals really hurts the broadcaster? Don't get me wrong. I think it's great for Dish to allow you to drop the locals (I did). I'm just not convinced that people dropping the locals gives Dish more leverage in negotiations.
“Fair price or your only revenue will be from advertisers. By the way, our contract included autohop delay... there is no contract, which means ads get hopped sooner”. That’s pretty good leverage. The station loses both metrics, considering it devalues the ad money.
Sounds good on the surface, but are there any AutoHop delays in contracts other than O&O stations? If not, then for the Meredith dispute, that wouldn't apply.
Yes. All CBS and all Fox have delays and each independent owner negotiated their own delay for NBC and ABC outside the O&O rules. Contract only applies if one is in place.
Does autohop work OTA? Regardless, even if it didn't, they're not measuring eyes on a given commercial. They're measuring eyes in 15 minute increments at best. So for those that have Nielsen sensors in their home (vs filling out the book), If you're watching a show at 6:01, it's assumed you're watching from 6:00-6:15. I think those times are right.
Yes AutoHop works with the OTA PTAT channels. And if you don't subscribe to the Sat locals, AutoHop works the next day.
That may have been the previous Nielsen measurement, however if you remember, Nielsen signed an agreement with Dish for their viewing information. Every receiver connected to the phone or internet atleast once per week uploads that info to Dish and it is shared with Nielsen for a more specific data point. This will give precise viewing habits, times, dates, number of tvs in house, etc. in addition, the networks do control their commercials wait time(C3, C7, C14, C30, C45 and C60). So with that data, as mentioned, it completely devalued ad space.
