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Verizon Hopes To Link Network Carriage Fees To Actual Viewership Figures: WSJ

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday March 17, 2013 @ 5:32pm PDTTags: Big Media, Carriage Fees, Verizon, Verizon FiOS

It isn’t a la carte but Verizon’s proposal to tie what it pays to carry TV channels to the number of viewers who actually watch is what big media companies might consider “disruptive”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Verizon’s FiOS TV is the nation’s sixth-largest pay-TV provider and has begun negotiations with some smaller companies about basing what Verizon pays on audience size. Under the established industry model, cable and satellite operators pay a monthly per-subscriber fee to carry channels based on the number of homes the channels are available. Verizon’s chief programming negotiator Terry Denson suggests that in many cases “We are paying for a customer who never goes to the channel”.  READ MORE »

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Comcast’s E! and Style Face Blackout On Dish Network In Carriage Dispute

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 30, 2010 @ 1:53pm PSTTags: Carriage Dispute, Carriage Fees, Carriage Negotiations, Comcast E!, Comcast Style, DirecTV, Dish Network, Retransmission Consent Fees, Sinclair Time Warner Cable, TV
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: The countdown to New Year’s eve is on, and so are the countdowns to a couple of possible channel blackouts as a number of carriage agreements expire at midnight on Dec. 31. Comcast’s E! and Style just issued … Read More »

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UPDATE: Fox-Cablevision Carriage Spat Claims Baseball Game, Sides Still Far Apart

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Saturday October 16, 2010 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Cable TV, Carriage Dispute, Carriage Fees, Fox Cablevision Carriage Dispute, Fox Dish Carriage Dispute, Fox Retransmission Consent Fees, Fox World Series, TV, TV Deals
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATE SUNDAY PM: After another session of talks today, Cablevision and Fox once again failed to make any “material progress” and remain far apart, according to a statement from Fox. Negotiations are scheduled to continue tomorrow. Meanwhile, the two sides continued their PR war with dueling statements. Cablevision once again pleaded for attention from Washington and pushed for binding arbitration: “The longer this shameful News Corp. blackout of the NFL and Major League Baseball continues, the more obvious it becomes to everyone, including political leaders of both parties, that binding arbitration is the fastest and fairest way to return Fox programming to Cablevision customers,” the company said. Fox released an open letter to Cablevision subscribers from Lew Leone, GM of the two Fox stations affected by the blackout. Here is a portion of it:

We offered Cablevision the exact same price that other companies are paying for our stations. But for some reason, Cablevision thinks that it deserves special treatment.

Instead of negotiating like a responsible business, Cablevision decided to make this your problem in the hope that if they caused you, the viewer, enough inconvenience, then politicians would intervene. That is what Cablevision’s call for “arbitration” is all about.   But ask yourself – do you think Cablevision would be ok with someone else stepping in to decide the price you pay them for cable and broadband service?

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Disney, TWC In Overtime On Carriage Deal

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday September 2, 2010 @ 5:23am PDTTags: ABC Family, Carriage Fees, Disney Channel, Disney Jr., Disney Time Warner, Disney Time Warner Carriage Deal, Disney Time Warner Negotiations, Time Warner Cable
Nellie Andreeva

Disney’s 4 O&O ABC stations and cable networks remained on the Time Warner Cable systems past midnight when the companies’ previous carriage agreement expired as the two sides continue to hammer out a new deal. Disney and TWC have been racing to wrap negotiations after reporting “significant progress” over … Read More »

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Carriage Wars: Rainbow vs AT&T Down To Wire, ABC vs Time Warner Looming

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 14, 2010 @ 10:11am PDTTags: AMC Mad Men, AT&T Rainbow Negotiations, AT&T U-Verse, AT&T U-verse Carriage Deal, Cable TV, Cablevision, Cablevision Rainbow Media, Carriage Deal, Carriage Dispute, Carriage Fees, IFC, WEtv
Nellie Andreeva

at&t u-verseIf you are an AT&T U-Verse subscriber, you may lose AMC, IFC and WE tv programming at midnight tonight. Hours before the extension between Cablevision-owned Rainbow Media and AT&T is set to expire, the two sides still appear at … Read More »

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Dish Network Drops 4 Disney HD Channels

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday June 22, 2010 @ 10:18am PDTTags: Cable TV, Carriage Fees, Dish Network

dish_network_logoMultichannel News is reporting that Dish Network has dropped four HD channels from Walt Disney Co. — Disney Channel HD, Disney XD HD, ABC Family HD and ESPNews HD — with the satellite operator claiming the programmer is asking for … Read More »

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