Les Moonves Calls Dish-Disney Deal “A Great Start” But “Not Enough For Us”

[dfergie]

"Everybody’s talking about over the top,” he says. “We’re talking about it with many of the [pay TV distributors] we’re in business with….The current ecosystem works very well, but a new way to get paid for your linear content is a good thing if it’s done appropriately.” He adds that consumers will probably see a online pay TV service “in concert with our partners.” That could include Dish: Moonves says that “our deal with Charlie is up at the end of this year. It’ll be an interesting conversation, as they always are with Charlie.”

deadline.com

 

[dfergie]

Les Moonves Predicts Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Will Be Approved, Talks Disney-Dish Deal

Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference in San Francisco, the CBS CEO said that the terms the Mouse House agreed to with the satellite provider were "not quite enough for us" and shared his thoughts about Netflix and Amazon.

hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Teehar]

Les Moonves is nothing but a greedy old you know what.

 

[The Fat Man]

... you Les. He's in the same vain as Howard Stern. As an avid Opie & Anthony supporter, you all know where I stand.

 

[satjay]

Wow so if they drop cbs, I see the tvguide channel will go away....oh no what to do lol

 

[Teehar]

Don't forget they now have 8 Thursday night football games,better make that an $11 increase.

 

[The Fat Man]

Not CBS!!!! That's WBZ in Boston, the station with the strongest OTA signal!!! What will I do? THE HUMANITY!!! PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO PRESS 004-01 ON MY REMOTE, INSTEAD OF 004-00!!!

 

[satjay]

Not CBS!!!! That's WBZ in Boston, the station with the strongest OTA signal!!! What will I do? THE HUMANITY!!! PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME HAVE TO PRESS 004-01 ON MY REMOTE, INSTEAD OF 004-00!!!

Same here, would be OTA for me

 

[dfergie]

OTA here also, but Les will probably tie in his Showtime channels etc... might get bloody.

 

[jerryez]

What is a full list of what sat channels CBS owns. Don't sound threatening to me. By the end of the year, NFL Thursday night football will be over until the next September.

 

[Rey]

I believe they are the movie channel,showtime channels and the cbs sports network . In my case they can shove it, I already use OTA for my local CBS channel.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Yup...

They own...

Showtime
The Movie Channel
Flix
CBS Sports Network
TV Guide Network

 

[jerryez]

If we could only convince Dish to provide us with the OTA guide for CBS, we would never care if they came back.

 

[Scherrman]

I wouldn't miss the CBS networks one bit. Anything I would care to see I can watch off my antenna on CBS.

 

[whitewolf8214]

I would miss CBS and CBS Sports Network!!

 

[Rey]

I would miss CBS and CBS Sports Network!!

But you have Directv so you'd be ok, no?

 

[HDRoberts]

I presume Viacom is separate?

If Showtime, TMC, Flix, CBS Sports, and TV Guide (seriously, how is that still a channel since the invention of the EPG) are the best they've got, I've got just one thing to say:

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

I didn't even know there was a CBS sports network.

 

[Rey]

Viacom is separate

 

[Deadlocked]

Is this all of CBS or just O&O? If the latter then I would just worry about CBSSN


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