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Dish quietly renews deal for Comcast RSNs; Fox's Carry calls Dish model 'antiquated'

December 22, 2014 | By Daniel Frankel

As its carriage impasse over Fox News rhetorically boiled over, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) quietly announced over the weekend that it came to terms on a long-term deal with Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) for four regional sports networks.

The long-term agreement with NBC Sports Group covers CSN Chicago, CSN Mid-Atlantic, CSN Bay Area and CSN California.

For more details please see http://www.fiercecable.com/story/di.../2014-12-22?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
 
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Scott Greczkowski said:
As its carriage impasse over Fox News rhetorically boiled over, Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) quietly announced over the weekend that it came to terms on a long-term deal with Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) for four regional sports networks.The long-term agreement with NBC Sports Group covers CSN Chicago, CSN Mid-Atlantic, CSN Bay Area and CSN California.
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Scott - does this surprise you considering how DISH, specifically Charlie, at one of the previous earnings calls, has talked about not going with RSN's due to combination of price and low % of subs that view RSN's? When I saw that CSN New England was dropped in Aug, I thought as other RSN deals expired they would be dropped and Dish would be the RSN'less provider.
 
Has there been any movement or news about getting comcast new england back? Last time I talked to a csr they said that the channel is not available any longer....
 
To my knowledge there are no negotiations on bringing it back. I don't think they will be carried by DISH unless CSNNE decides to go with whatever the DISH terms are.
 
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Comcast has to play NICE if it wants TWC. That's all this is about. I think Comcast is starting to feel the cold air in DC, especially with the new FCC definition of "broadband" Comcast needs Dish more at this moment than the other way around. This how Comcast wants to demonstrate to DC that it really will behave with "good faith" with other MVPD's when it comes to channels Comcast/NBC owns, and that it won't keep its content exclusive to Comcast. Comcast is desperate. For the first time, I really feel like the Comcast/TWC merger actually has a chance of NOT being approved. Well, it should not. However, I would (only because our govt. created the mega-beast Comcast/NBC) be OK with a Charter/TWC merger because Charter is small and that merge would bring it closer to a competitor to Comcast and would most likely result in IMPROVEMENTS to many Charter customers--far more than a TWC/Comcast merge.
 
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Certainly hard to predict but it does seem at this moment the merger is going nowhere fast.
 
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This is great news for me......Being 1700 miles away and a 922 back at old house.....Go Hawks, White Sox........lol....that's about it....Doh...
 
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Comcast has to play NICE if it wants TWC. That's all this is about. I think Comcast is starting to feel the cold air in DC, especially with the new FCC definition of "broadband" Comcast needs Dish more at this moment than the other way around. This how Comcast wants to demonstrate to DC that it really will behave with "good faith" with other MVPD's when it comes to channels Comcast/NBC owns, and that it won't keep its content exclusive to Comcast. Comcast is desperate. For the first time, I really feel like the Comcast/TWC merger actually has a chance of NOT being approved. Well, it should not. However, I would (only because our govt. created the mega-beast Comcast/NBC) be OK with a Charter/TWC merger because Charter is small and that merge would bring it closer to a competitor to Comcast and would most likely result in IMPROVEMENTS to many Charter customers--far more than a TWC/Comcast merge.
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Apparently not desperate enough to be willing to negotiate CSN/Philly. The loophole that Comcast used to keep CSN/Philly off of satellite was closed years ago, and yet neither Dish or DirecTV have it yet. As far as I'm concerned that issue should torpedo any merger talk involving Comcast.
 
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