It would be nice if Dish could "replace" the offending provider like LIN with a neighboring market provider... or with the NY or LA Feed until the dispute was settled or for good, that might prompt company's like LIN to re-think... 
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At the first of this year we were "threatened" with losing our local FOX affilliate in a retransmission dispute with Crime Warner. Referencing the idea thst the poster above had, TW entered into a side agreement with FOX to carry its national programming despite the fact that they didnt have an agreement with the local affilliate. It took all of the negotiating power from the local affilliate and they caved.
Actually, Time Warner did that all over the country. They made arrangements to bring in primetime programming from neighboring markets.
Dish could EASILY do similarly on the technical side. Legally? If Time Warner was going to do it, did they find a loophole?
Dish could EASILY do similarly on the technical side. Legally? If Time Warner was going to do it, did they find a loophole?
I just sent an email to my local, WAVY, in Norfolk, VA... I know it's out of their hands, but at least they know I'm not happy 
upset that we may lose something that we are already paying extra for!
We are already paying an additional $16 a mo for the local channels via DISH..... so to find out at this stage in the game that we may lose the ONE local channel that we actually watch is really upsetting! On the upside, I do have a huge arial antenna on my roof..I may have to get it hooked up and running
We are already paying an additional $16 a mo for the local channels via DISH..... so to find out at this stage in the game that we may lose the ONE local channel that we actually watch is really upsetting! On the upside, I do have a huge arial antenna on my roof..I may have to get it hooked up and running
We are already paying an additional $16 a mo for the local channels via DISH..... so to find out at this stage in the game that we may lose the ONE local channel that we actually watch is really upsetting! On the upside, I do have a huge arial antenna on my roof..I may have to get it hooked up and running
Somehow I think $16.00 a month for locals is a bit of a stretch... $5.00 maybe.. If you are paying $16.00 a month for locals you need to re-negotiate..
Bad thing is those stations that are my "locals" are not local, but 300 miles away... once upon a time we got Lubbock NBC, Roswell CBS and El Paso ABC which provided a good mix of regional news... the DMA system is broken
Adweek says that Dish picked this time to draw the line in part because of the FCC meeting tomorrow.
Though it has limited authority to radically change the rules, the FCC put retransmission reform on its agenda for this Thursday.
One analyst thinks the timing was not an accident. "While this is just another retrans battle, the timing is interesting...We think DISH is holding out due to the FCC meeting," said Marci Ryvicker, a senior analyst with Wells Fargo Securities.
LIN, DISH Fight Might Be Godsend for Retrans Advocates
Though it has limited authority to radically change the rules, the FCC put retransmission reform on its agenda for this Thursday.
One analyst thinks the timing was not an accident. "While this is just another retrans battle, the timing is interesting...We think DISH is holding out due to the FCC meeting," said Marci Ryvicker, a senior analyst with Wells Fargo Securities.
LIN, DISH Fight Might Be Godsend for Retrans Advocates
Response to me from Mobile, Al Fox Affiliate.
Thank you for your email and I understand your frustration. WALA has been an important member of the local community since 1953 and we are committed to providing our viewers around-the-clock news, political coverage, traffic, weather, public service announcements, as well as high quality local and national programming. The bottom line is DISH profits by including broadcast stations like WALA and WFNA in its line-up. Like any other business, DISH should pay fair market value for the ability to resell our station's programming to you.
The rates we are asking for are a fraction of what DISH pays for many cable networks that you may never even watch. Local television stations are consistently ranked among the most-watched channels, in part because we provide local news and programming that cable networks don't offer and we host/sponsor important community service events, yet we do not get compensated fairly for the value of our stations. Nobody would find that reasonable, which is why Congress enacted laws that allow us to negotiate for fair compensation.
We are working hard to reach a deal with DISH so that you won't lose access to your favorite programs. All we want is what is fair, so we can continue to serve our communities.
In the meantime, know you have choices. You can view us for free and in high definition over-the-air by using an antenna or switch to an alternative pay-TV provider. For more information, please visit our web site: Mobile AL News, Weather | Fox10tv.com
Thank you for supporting LOCAL television.
Matt Pumo
VP/General Manager
WALA FOX 10 / WFNA TV
Fox10tv.com
Thank you for your email and I understand your frustration. WALA has been an important member of the local community since 1953 and we are committed to providing our viewers around-the-clock news, political coverage, traffic, weather, public service announcements, as well as high quality local and national programming. The bottom line is DISH profits by including broadcast stations like WALA and WFNA in its line-up. Like any other business, DISH should pay fair market value for the ability to resell our station's programming to you.
The rates we are asking for are a fraction of what DISH pays for many cable networks that you may never even watch. Local television stations are consistently ranked among the most-watched channels, in part because we provide local news and programming that cable networks don't offer and we host/sponsor important community service events, yet we do not get compensated fairly for the value of our stations. Nobody would find that reasonable, which is why Congress enacted laws that allow us to negotiate for fair compensation.
We are working hard to reach a deal with DISH so that you won't lose access to your favorite programs. All we want is what is fair, so we can continue to serve our communities.
In the meantime, know you have choices. You can view us for free and in high definition over-the-air by using an antenna or switch to an alternative pay-TV provider. For more information, please visit our web site: Mobile AL News, Weather | Fox10tv.com
Thank you for supporting LOCAL television.
Matt Pumo
VP/General Manager
WALA FOX 10 / WFNA TV
Fox10tv.com
Dish will cave. They have before. From the pioneer to do this, Nexstar Broadcasting to every other market, dish has come up with payments per local subscriber. Nexstar went on sucessfully to get payments from Cable that other groups since have. They (dish) pays for other providers, why not broadcasters.. Heck Dish does not provide local programming at cost to us. I know the amounts dish pays per subscriber but can't tell.
Dish is the one that pays all the bills in getting the station to us. The OTA station coesn't pay for any cost other than the ones that are for normal transmission of the signal. Dish either picks it up off the air or runs a fiber to the station or pays say AT&T OR VERIZON for the fiber cost.
Why not? Because as Senator Leiberman pointed out, broadcasters were never meant to be charging the viewer. It's why they are given so many privileges. (my words - such as denying me to see another DMA's networks) That's why. Take away their complete control, and then talk to me about letting them charge me for watching what is supposed to be free on their end. Dish, Direct, Cable, etc all charge more then what it costs, what do you want, for them to make no money? At that rate I will have no choices because they will all go out of business.
You make it sound like it is some big secret conspiracy that Dish makes money. Who would ever have thought that?
DISH charges it customers pennies per day. The website fails mention how many pennies per day LIN Media is asking for. I am sure LIN Media is contractually prohibited from publicly disclosing their negoitated rates... this is however an obvious attempt at deception. While DISH does not disclose the negotiated rates either, they do mention a rather large 140 percent price increase. That seems a bit unreasonable to me.
. I am sure LIN Media is contractually prohibited from publicly disclosing their negoitated rates... this is however an obvious attempt at deception. While DISH does not disclose the negotiated rates either, they do mention a rather large 140 percent price increase. That seems a bit unreasonable to me.
A single television station raising it rates by a few pennies to a pay television provider is in no way equivalent to gas prices rising to $8.00 a gallon. It *might* be equivalent to the price of oil or gasoline pump repair rising a few cents per gallon or per unit, at best, if you disregard the fact that gasoline is much more important (i.e. gets people to work, gets food to grocery stores, etc.).
I doubt they are trying to equate a TV provider service with gasoline, just trying to illustrate the percentage increase in a way that's probably easier to understand for an item we buy often. Would a gallon of milk for $8 be better??
