Disney Injunction Request Vs. Dish Denied

COMMENTS (4)

• Dish is paying Starz the agreed upon monthly licence fee for It’s channels as if EVERY Dish Subscriber were paying for it!

  In other words – STARZ is making MORE MONEY than they would be paid just from the subscriber base! You got to give Dish credit to do this – it’s a nice way to say thank you to the subscribers, plus as I just mentioned – STARZ is making more money!

  Does the language of Dish Contract say they can’t offer the channel bellow market value to subscribers or give it away free if they are still paying STARZ the agreed upon fee?

  Are they worried that Dish or another provider might offer premium channels at,or below “cost” to subscribers as a “lost leader” to gain more subscribers?

  It will be interesting to see what a judge says!

  Comment by Herb Finn — Friday June 3, 2011 @ 6:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is Disney and Starz upset because it is for 12 months because pretty much every cable/sat provider does promotions where it is a free weekend of the premiere channels every so often. Like Directv is making all the premium channels free next weekend thurs – sun. seems like this is just a money grab by Disney/Star because they are not getting subscription fees.

  Comment by mike i — Friday June 3, 2011 @ 7:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Doesn’t get more silly than this.

  Comment by Aeiouy — Saturday June 4, 2011 @ 9:51am PDT  Reply to this post

• Dish is not doing this for every customer. We got a letter from them saying they were doing this as an appreciation for their long time customers. Since we were almost at the end of our contract, I think it was designed as an added inducement to try and keep customers by offering them a premium service for free. I, too, would think that Starz is getting whatever they have paid for, and Dish is the one who is biting the bullet now with hopes they will benefit down the road, probably by customers who stay with them, and might decide to keep the Starz service after they have to start paying for it.
  The copyright infringement allegation is ridiculous. What, is Disney going to sue every time someone looks sideways at the cover of a Disney video in a store because they’re not getting paid for it? Sheesh.

  Comment by lainey — Monday June 6, 2011 @ 6:05am PDT  Reply to this post