WSJ - Dish Network in Talks for Internet TV

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Dish Network in Talks About Internet TV - WSJ.com

Dish Network Corp. has approached several media companies about the possibility of licensing their TV channels for use on a new pay-TV service to be delivered over the Internet, rather than over Dish's satellite system, according to people familiar with the discussions.

In part, offering channels over the Internet could give Dish more flexibility to exclude channels whose existing contracts with Dish mandate that they appear on the satellite company's most-widely distributed tiers of service.

To save money, the Dish service could also include an antenna to pick up over-the-air broadcasts of major broadcast TV stations, rather than paying them subscription fees, as many cable and satellite companies now do, the people familiar with the discussions added.

Wall Street Journal is a pay site, but the article will probably be out free tomorrow somewhere.

I think it has a lot of possibilities. Especially if they can offer some of the more popular channels a la carte.

 

[mike123abc]

Dish Networking - NYPOST.com

New York Post has an article on it now.

The benefit to negotiating for broadband-only rights is that Dish would have the right to circumvent its tightly worded contracts for satellite-delivered programming and have more flexibility to offer smaller, lower-cost bundles moving it in the direction of a la carte.

 

[Teehar]

Dish Networking - NYPOST.com

New York Post has an article on it now.

Certainly hope it pans out!The more choices the better!