Dish / Gannett Dispute Settled! No Channel Removals!
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It is funny how stations could force themselves to be on any provider then charge the provider for carrying said channel.
Not sure what you mean. It is either/or. If you require carriage you can't ask for money. If you choose compensation the carrier does not have to carry the station.
My guess is Dish inched toward Gannett a little on fees, but did nothing that would set any autohop or PTAT precedents.
Even on fees, I can't believe Dish ended up too far from wherever their real target was when negotiations began. Otherwise the channels would have gone dark.
Both ABC & NBC were dark here after 2AM today but were back on this morning when checked at 10AM.
I wonder how people who get Dish installed today because they can't get their ota channels, will feel tomorrow if their local station(s) was pulled.
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Think about it. Stations can force providers to carry them. However, they can also mandate that providers pay a retransmission fee. Once again, FCC stacking the deck in one side's favor.
and now ironically all the Minneapolis stations are out...they were screwing up last night (per another thread) and now they're all gone
Jumping the gun?
http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/dish.aspx
Edit: Nevermind. I see that the agreement actually was reached. I was thrown off by reports of channels being out. At least I can stop seeing that annoying scroll they had on WXIA, WBIR and WATL.
http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/dish.aspx
Edit: Nevermind. I see that the agreement actually was reached. I was thrown off by reports of channels being out. At least I can stop seeing that annoying scroll they had on WXIA, WBIR and WATL.
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No. I edited my post. I was confused by people reporting their locals being out. Sorry about that. I wonder what the terms were for this to just go away so quickly. The Gannett ad time must not be that valuable or they wouldn't have been running a Dish dispute ad every third commercial for the last few days.
Gannett: The dispute was not centered on the DVR.........
In a backwards way, that's the truth, but not what they were saying earlier.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-dish-gannett-idUSBRE89403I20121008
And don't miss the subtlety of the remark that Dish could allow same day skipping rather than next day. Sounds like part of an agreement in the making.....
In a backwards way, that's the truth, but not what they were saying earlier.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/08/us-dish-gannett-idUSBRE89403I20121008
And don't miss the subtlety of the remark that Dish could allow same day skipping rather than next day. Sounds like part of an agreement in the making.....
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"If you left Dish even though you liked the service, think twice if (when) your new provider has a dispute before jumping the gun. History shows local's disputes don't last long if at all."
Except that there is STILL no AMC.
Except that there is STILL no AMC.
To clarify. The stations have two options. One is to require carriage on a provider that also provides other competitive channels. Two, they can forgo the required carriage and instead charge re-transmission fees to those that wish to carry them. That means that someone like KARE11 can say yeah, carry me or else... or they can say yeah, you don't to carry me... oh you want to carry me, well that's gonna cost you. They have to pick an option, they can't do both.
Here's the usual response he's been getting from it lately....Scott just uses one of those old 70's style magical 8 balls.
I would also wager that autohop will still be working on all big4 Gannett channels.
The big question is how much did it cost?
So DISH is going to pay over 300% increase to keep the locals on Gannett? I thought the whole reason for Charlie to come out with Auto Hop was to give him the leverage to force the networks to keep their prices down ,when their contracts came due. Instead it looks like they are using it to Force DISH to pay MORE, or they lose their channels. So this will translate to higher prices for ALL DISH subs ,I'm sure. I bet we see the price of our basic packs go up to reflect this increase.
