Dish Dispute with KUSA
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You know I understand they want a price increase in the retrans fee, but at what point does the price just get ridiculous? People won't keep paying for cable tv with the high prices for long. Cord cutters are the result.
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Since we do DVR stuff and do take some ad dollars away, I will give them they should get retransmission fees. Those fees, however, should be equal or less than government channels such as the NASA channel or CSPAN, since they want to be protected under the government. What is it that CSPAN gets, $0.13/sub???
I still don't. I also DVR from OTA and pay nothing to the locals that way, it's a court provided right to do. Being on Cable/Sat should be no different other than their cost of getting the signal to the provider or of the provider supplying the signal.
http://www.fiercecable.com/story/te.../2015-09-30?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
TEGNA Media said it has agreed to wait an additional 24 hours from the 7 p.m. EST expiration of its retrans deal tonight with Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) before blacking out its 46 stations on the satellite operator's service.
Tegna (formerly Gannett) reaches 90 million U.S. viewers in 25 markets, controlling a range a powerful network affiliates.
Dish released a statement Friday saying it had agreed to pay Tegna whatever new deal terms were agreed to, retroactive to Oct. 1, so long as the two sides could avoid a blackout and keep negotiating into October. Dish said Tegna rejected that offer.
The negotiations are among several down-to-the-wire retrans talks occurring in the pay-TV industry, with AT&T also facing an Oct. 1 blackout on Tribune stations that would impact 24 stations in 19 markets. AT&T (NYSE: T) is simultaneously dealing with a possible blackout of its new DirecTV unit on Media General, affecting 62 stations in 40 markets.
In all, more than 130 TV stations could go dark on a major pay-TV service Thursday.
The difficult talks are occurring as the FCC is examining possible rule changes regulating broadcast retransmission negotiations. Pay-TV operators are pushing back against fast-rising retrans fees, which have increased, on average, 40 percent per subscriber just in the last year.
Station groups, meanwhile, are mindful that essential leverage, such as "exclusivity" rules that restrict operators' ability to pull in distant station signals in the event of a blackout, could be going away amid the FCC's review of retrans. These broadcasters are pushing hard for the best possible deal before this fundamental shift to the playing field occurs.
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TEGNA Media said it has agreed to wait an additional 24 hours from the 7 p.m. EST expiration of its retrans deal tonight with Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) before blacking out its 46 stations on the satellite operator's service.
Tegna (formerly Gannett) reaches 90 million U.S. viewers in 25 markets, controlling a range a powerful network affiliates.
Dish released a statement Friday saying it had agreed to pay Tegna whatever new deal terms were agreed to, retroactive to Oct. 1, so long as the two sides could avoid a blackout and keep negotiating into October. Dish said Tegna rejected that offer.
The negotiations are among several down-to-the-wire retrans talks occurring in the pay-TV industry, with AT&T also facing an Oct. 1 blackout on Tribune stations that would impact 24 stations in 19 markets. AT&T (NYSE: T) is simultaneously dealing with a possible blackout of its new DirecTV unit on Media General, affecting 62 stations in 40 markets.
In all, more than 130 TV stations could go dark on a major pay-TV service Thursday.
The difficult talks are occurring as the FCC is examining possible rule changes regulating broadcast retransmission negotiations. Pay-TV operators are pushing back against fast-rising retrans fees, which have increased, on average, 40 percent per subscriber just in the last year.
Station groups, meanwhile, are mindful that essential leverage, such as "exclusivity" rules that restrict operators' ability to pull in distant station signals in the event of a blackout, could be going away amid the FCC's review of retrans. These broadcasters are pushing hard for the best possible deal before this fundamental shift to the playing field occurs.
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So tomorrow on Thursday, 7:00pm I will have to worry all over again about losing my local ABC station.
well, with the deadline extended a full day, i wonder if that's a good sign that they are "talking" and a deal might be reached maybe just in time.
i guess we will find out if the channels get removed tomorrow or Dish reaches a deal or gets another short term extension.
i guess we will find out if the channels get removed tomorrow or Dish reaches a deal or gets another short term extension.
Last time we lost CBS it was only a few hours till it was back on the air. I hope that this time it doesn't go that far. IF it does I wish that the FCC would force arbitration on both companies to get a fast resolution.
Which company does it hurt most? With TEGNA a large portion of their viewership goes down , meaning less advertising revenue. For dish, how many subscribers will actually leave ?
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I doubt that any blackout will last that long so people won't actually churn to the competition. If it goes longer than a day or two ,then you will start seeing defections in subscribers.
