Just keep the HWS (can't downgrade to old Hopper anyway) and add that Slingbox.
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DISH Reaches Long Term Agreement with DISNEY / ESPN / ABC
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I wonder if charlie will create his own sports channel to use as a bargaining chip....like he did with the weather channel
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There was something in the paper yesterday about CBS. Les Moonves said that retransmission fees were up 50% this year and that there will be bigger increases in years to come. Sounds ominous.
Highlighted for all those who continue to think DISH is making up what the Networks are asking for, a product that should be virtually FREE (Or at the level we now pay which I consider reasonable) with their market protection.
http://www.deadline.com/2013/11/les-moonves-cbs-wasnt-hurt-by-battle-with-time-warner-cable/
You do know what happens when you ass u me don't you?
Better he ass u U than ass u ME
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Watch espn would be huge for dish but do they care about sports enough...time will tell
As of now chs still on...no scroll bar of any kind of threatening matter...so far so good !!!
As of now chs still on...no scroll bar of any kind of threatening matter...so far so good !!!
That's possible especially when you consider how new the thread is. There's only one other thread I can think of that has about 670,000 views from 2011 that's still going. If these negotiations continue by May of next year then this thread will destroy that mark.
If Disney would stop producing the lousy movies they've been releasing lately it would probably take some pressure off of their profitable businesses.
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What are you talking about, their movie divison is very profitable, they are number 3 at the box office in the us this year with 1.1 billion dollars of tickets sold and they still have Thor and Frozen yet to come, wordwide they are number 2 with over 3 billion dollars in tickets sold, just behind Warner as of now, the only big flop they had was The Lone Ranger and that still made $217 million worldwide.
Those movies also provide a lot of $$$ because of Merchandising, Home Video, deals with Netflix, etc, etc.
I'm thinking the lousy movie comment is more of just being his opinion. Obviously not a fact.
LOS ANGELES, November 7, 2013 — The Walt Disney Co.'s earnings rose 12 percent in the company's fiscal fourth quarter, beating analysts' forecasts on the surprising strength of its new video game "Disney Infinity" and upbeat movie studio results.
But a worse-than-expected performance from Disney's stalwart pay TV unit housing its ESPN network led to a stock drop in after-hours trading.
Analyst Alan Gould of Evercore Partners said the market remained focused on the reliable profits of Disney's pay TV division, rather than the hit-and-miss results from the studio or its games division.
Net income in the three months that ended Sept. 28 came to $1.39 billion, or 77 cents per share. That's up from $1.24 billion, or 68 cents per share, in the same months a year ago. Revenue grew 7 percent to $11.57 billion.
Analysts polled by FactSet had expected earnings of 76 cents per share on revenue of $11.4 billion.
Revenue at Disney's pay TV networks, including ESPN, rose a tepid 1 percent to $3.57 billion, largely because a big chunk of fees from distributors came in the previous quarter due to meeting its audience obligations early. The unit's profit fell 7 percent.
Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said, excluding that fee-timing issue, revenue and profits would have been up 6 percent. While ESPN's growth was even better than that, heavy investment in programming at the part-owned A&E Networks and on a free-to-air channel in Germany "is depressing the average," he said.
-RYAN NAKASHIMA , Associated Press
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Their stock actually closed up yesterday. This article was early in the day.
