This is tangentially related, I posted it "elsewhere" and thought I would share it here. I know the actual numbers are off but...
A thought just occurred to me, I wonder what the balance was for Dish considering losing a certain number of subscribers vs fees they did not have to pay for all their subscribers to FOX during the outage.
I had never considered that factor in the situation.
Hypothetically they lost 20,000 subs @ $80 per month - that's $16 million per month, but lets say they pay FOX $2 (I don't know what the real number is) per sub and they don't have to pay that for their 13 million subs - that's $26 million per month.
Now that the channels are back on the air Dish may have to start recovering the losses, but they probably were not hurting fiscally at all.
I had never thought to try and calculate the real time financials for Dish and FOX, but it really looks like FOX was loosing bigtime while the channels were off.