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Hours before DISH Network’s carriage agreement with Comcast’s E! and Style was to to expire at midnight, threatening a blackout of the two cable networks on DISH, the two sides have agreed to a short-term extension. The deal is “in hopes of reaching a long term solution,” E! and Style said in a statement.
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This really isn’t news, is it? Every year, we see the same hardball tactics between the content providers (nets) and service providers (satellite and cable). They almost always reach an eleventh-hour agreement, the result of which is almost always higher fees passed on to the customers.
Fox and the NYC cable company got into this same snit in late 2010, and various other examples are found at DISH and DirecTV periodically. Different names, same story.
If the Comcast/Kabletown purchase of NBC is allowed, it becomes a bigger question. In Comcast’s case, how do you separate the service provider from the content provider? Either way, the customer will be the eventual loser (fewer choices, higher prices).