Tribune Broadcasting Company Blacks Out DISH Customers in 33 Markets;
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Shhhhh !! Don't let them know that. Let them spend (waste) their money doing it and thinking it may work.
TV stations try and tell people that using antennas are an option but you can be sure, they really don't want everyone to go that route. It would effectively cut their revenue in half if they lost the carriage fees that they receive from local cablecos, Dish, and Directv.
A majority of the Sports on WGN TV9 in Chicago have been farmed out by WGN TV9 to WCIU 26 & WPWR 50 due to the WGN CW Network commitment which ends on September 1, 2016.
WPWR 50 will be the CW Network Affiliate on September 1, 2016.
WLS 7 (abc) in Chicago broadcasts about 25 games per year.
Tribune Broadcasting is wasting their time and WGN America has not been worth a penny since they discontinued carrying away games for Cubs, Sox, Bulls & Blackhawks.
In the end both sides are to blame and nobody wins.
I've been through many work stoppages and there are no winners ever.
I know that I've threatened to leave, but in the end it's not worth the disruption of an install, etc.
"Dish, in an announcement Thursday, claimed that Tribune was “back at the table,” after suspending talks for five weeks. But a Tribune rep disputed that."
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/dish-tribune-blackout-free-antenna-1201840123/
http://variety.com/2016/biz/news/dish-tribune-blackout-free-antenna-1201840123/
Dish has talked about WGN not worth what is now being asked and not popular enough. They did say it is being bundled with all the locals and that it shouldn't be. Certainly seems that is holding up all the locals. I don't remember if double the cost was mentioned.
Dish on Sinclair’s antenna giveaway: ‘It’s smart’ and Tribune should do the same thing
A year after engaging Sinclair Broadcast Group in a contentious retransmission licensing renewal negotiation that led to the biggest ever retrans blackout, Dish Network has endorsed the broadcaster’s plan to hand out free over-the-air antennas.
“It’s smart. The country’s 90 million pay-TV customers, all of whom pay retransmission fees for local broadcast stations, are frustrated by rising costs and channel blackouts,” said Warren Schlichting, Dish executive VP of marketing, programming and media sales, in a statement. “Complementing the pay-TV experience, which includes the increasing adoption of streaming services like Sling TV, Sony Vue, Hulu and Netflix, is good business and may drive a solution to the otherwise compounding problem of ever-rising retransmission consent fees for local TV.”
http://www.fiercecable.com/cable/di...nds&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
A year after engaging Sinclair Broadcast Group in a contentious retransmission licensing renewal negotiation that led to the biggest ever retrans blackout, Dish Network has endorsed the broadcaster’s plan to hand out free over-the-air antennas.
“It’s smart. The country’s 90 million pay-TV customers, all of whom pay retransmission fees for local broadcast stations, are frustrated by rising costs and channel blackouts,” said Warren Schlichting, Dish executive VP of marketing, programming and media sales, in a statement. “Complementing the pay-TV experience, which includes the increasing adoption of streaming services like Sling TV, Sony Vue, Hulu and Netflix, is good business and may drive a solution to the otherwise compounding problem of ever-rising retransmission consent fees for local TV.”
http://www.fiercecable.com/cable/di...nds&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Tribune Disputes Dish Description of Talks
Tribune, whose stations have been blacked out in 33 markets by a retransmission dispute with Dish Network, blasted Dish’s description of their talks.
In a press release about supporting the National Association of Broadcasters’ antenna giveaway program, Warren Schlichting, Dish executive VP of marketing, programming and media sales, said Tribune was back at the bargaining table.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ne...912?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Tribune, whose stations have been blacked out in 33 markets by a retransmission dispute with Dish Network, blasted Dish’s description of their talks.
In a press release about supporting the National Association of Broadcasters’ antenna giveaway program, Warren Schlichting, Dish executive VP of marketing, programming and media sales, said Tribune was back at the bargaining table.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/ne...912?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
While I agree locals would probably prefer to get the retrans money, I'm not sure how much the retrans money brings in vs. ad money. You may be right, it may be around half, but I'm not convinced.
The free antenna is only part of the solution... First it only helps those "in range"... Second, it does nothing to solve time shifting ability... Don't just give me an antenna, give me a free OTA Tivo with a paid subscription. The reason I mention Tivo, is that currently Dish's OTA USB adapter is not available (backorder), if it were, it has anomalies that cause the recordings to have issues. Even if you addressed those two issues, it only has one tuner, so when more than one local goes dark, your 16 tuner "no conflicts" hopper solution is mute with respect to locals.
You managed to save a quarter per month on your Dish bill? Great job!
That must have been very early in 2012. I think we all remember the whole AMC ordeal.
Media research company SNL Kagan says total TV retrans dollars will rise to $3.61 billion in 2017 from a $1.14 billion total in 2010.
Research and ad-buying firm Magna Global predicts TV ad revenue for 2016 will grow 0.5% to $63 billion
While those numbers are overall numbers I would suspect that local dollars have close to the same ratio.
Affiliates send at least half of that back to the Network in reverse compensation. The only ones keeping it all are the Network Owned and Operated stations and any independent non network stations.
Retransmission-consent fees could nearly double in the next five years to $11.6 billion, as broadcasters are pressured to give back larger and larger pieces of their distribution haul to their affiliated networks, according to SNL Kagan.
Those total numbers are a little wacky from the previous article but we can see that they are rising quickly, much faster than inflation.
Using those numbers, retrans would be ~5% of income. Slightly less
than than the "half" claimed earlier.
Remember there are two WGN's, WGN TV9 Chicago (OTA) and WGN America (Cable/Satellite).
You managed to save a quarter per month on your Dish bill? Great job!
That must have been very early in 2012. I think we all remember the whole AMC ordeal.
No actually, I received a refund/credit on MLB Extra Innings 1/2 Season Package ($60) off $120 Price and $35 off per month on monthly bill for year and Multi-Sport free for a year. I save more than a quarter.
How ironic would it be when our bills go up to cover the cost of the antennas and credits rather then the increase agreed to with Tribune.
May be both rumor and/or speculation but, here’s the site:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Media
Retransmission Litigation History
The retransmission agreement between Tribune Media and DISH Network came to an inelegant halt for millions of DISH viewing customers in a wide geographic array of markets on June 12, 2016 when DISH Network on the behalf of its customers chose not to accept Tribune Media's inappropriately large increase (2.4 times the expired contract rate) to the retransmitting consent contract fee. June 20, 2016 Dish Network filed a lawsuit against Tribune Broadcasting and accused the retransmission company (Tribune Media Company) of deliberately spreading false statements about the DISH Network in their retransmission consent fee value disagreement.
Perhaps you’re talking about this episode on, “Journalism”? About 8 minutes in he talks about Tribune, but nothing about the dispute with Dish. Still, it gives some background on the spin-off of Tribune Media…
