I think this is funny. We saw Charlie the other night talk about Fisher, his body language and words chosen was pretty much saying "When hell freezes over they will be back." Now a couple of days later they are back? Hmmm..... did the AAD Distants have something to do with this? I 100% believe so! They saw that...checked the laws, and said "Damn! We better get our retransmission money."
I wouldn't be surprised if we see quite a few contracts signed in the next week.
There's no doubt in my mind that the AAD factor got this deal done....
For the majority of the channels though, it is only SD ... I wonder if this was a move my Fisher to say ... okay we'll give you back the SD but no HD. Because the channel is now available this now blocks AAD from giving you the HD versions ...
Time will tell I guess ... hopefully the HD versions come soon ...