Dish HD vs Disney (DISH sort of won...)

[dare2be]

Reason
dupe

Hasn't stopped you before.

 

[cosmo_kramer]

Dupe?? Technically, he should only have one post in his post count. Every other post since then has been a dupe....

 

[jaredbo]

http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-MIVU2R1A1I4L01-27PMO8KVD85VT8RIFDC2T9H0HG

 

[Tampa8]

Reads like the rate was the same, but how the contracts were structured made more profitable for Comcast and Direct.

 

[mike123abc]

Reads like the rate was the same, but how the contracts were structured made more profitable for Comcast and Direct.

Even if the rates are the same, the ability to move some channels to less popular tiers like AT250 would keep Dish from having to pay.

 

[Poke]

Hope they make ESPN pay.. They need to learn that providers are going to fight to get the best deal for their subscribers to where ESPN could care less they are going to try make everyone pay.

 

[Claude Greiner]

http://music.yahoo.com/news/dish-awarded-4-9-million-espn-licensing-lawsuit-201423957--finance.html

$4.9 Million

What a Joke of a decision by the court. Dish probably spent that just in Legal fees!

In a unanimous ruling, the 10-member jury in Manhattan found ESPN liable for breaching a 2005 licensing agreement by allowing rivals to pay lower rates for ESPN Deportes, a Spanish language channel, without extending the same offer to Dish

 

[Teehar]

They say a win is a win,but in this case I'm not so sure.

 

[CK SatGuy]

Wow, the jury only granted just one of Dish's claims. I wonder how it'll affect the negotiations come September.

 

[Teehar]

My gut says,Dish pretty much knows they are going to have to pay a hefty fee for ABC/Disney,I can't help but think that's one reason for the higher than usual rate hikes.When you hear Joe Clayton say our checkbooks are open what else can you think.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Wow, the jury only granted just one of Dish's claims. I wonder how it'll affect the negotiations come September.

Im sure ESPN is going to make Dish pay for taking them to court.

ESPN now holds all the cards!

 

[jrbdmb]

As was mentioned last week, I dont see AutoHop being a factor. DISH is ESPN's 2nd largest distribution, if DISNEY removed its channels from DISH they would be losing a major major chunk of their revenue which would hurt them probably more then it would hurt DISH.

Maybe, but ABC / ESPN / Disney gets a huge amount of revenue from advertising as well, and if they see AutoHop as a threat to that they will certainly fight it.

It's possible that the reason we haven't heard Disney moaning about AutoHop is they know they will be killing it off in a few months.

 

[Poke]

Yeah real sad! But this is what happens when you have stupid people as juries.

 

[Teehar]

Yeah real sad! But this is what happens when you have stupid people as juries.

Well when they can only make judgements on certain parts you can't put the blame on the jury.

 

[Claude Greiner]

Dish technically looses another court case. HA HA

 

[3HaloODST]

Dish technically looses another court case. HA HA

Guess they better tighten up that court case, lol.

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[dare2be]

Righty tighty.

 

[Tampa8]

ESPN ordered to pay DISH

Breach of contract.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/espn-ordered-pay-dish-network-425347

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Only on one of the 8 complaints and only for $7 million which was a drop in the hat...

I hope both companies can now work together and bring DISH customers the programming they want.

 

[jcrandall]

Dish's current carriage deal with ESPN expires in September.

That line is pretty scary when you look at Dish and Disney, of which ESPN is a part of.