Dish and ACA: Nexstar should do 'baseball-style' arbitration on retrans if it wants Media General

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Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and the American Cable Association (ACA) filed further comments to the FCC, asking the agency to block Nextstar Broadcasting Group's $4.6 billion takeover of rival Media General.

http://www.fiercecable.com/story/di...tyle-arbitration-retrans-if-it-wan/2016-05-06

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[jegrant]

Either that, or allow customers to drop Nexstar's local channels in exchange for a bill reduction of the exact amount paid by DISH to Nexstar. (So if Nexstar charges DISH $3/mo per customer, then the customer would be allowed to drop those channels and get $3 off their bill each month.)