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Dish Touts CES Would-Be Award, Slams CBS In Ad For Commercial-Zapping Hopper

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Sunday January 20, 2013 @ 5:58pm PSTTags: Dish, Hopper
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Dish is using the recent controversy over the Best In Show award the satcaster’s new Hopper with Sling DVR did not receive as a recruiting tool. The ad-zapping service was awarded the top prize by the editors of CNET before they were overruled by corporate parent CBS who is suing Dish over Hopper. Today Dish bought full-page ads in several major newspapers to crow about the award it didn’t get and blast CBS. In the ad, which first appeared on Dish’s Web site, the company says “CBS will go to any lengths to keep you from enjoying ad-skipping technology – even censoring its own writers and throwing out their decision to name Hopper ‘Best In Show.’”

The controversy shifted the Hopper debate about whether it is ethical for a distributor whose service depends on programming to cut the lifeline that makes a lot of that programming possible, commercials, to one about journalistic integrity. CNET media writer Greg Sandoval resigned as a result of CBS’ decision to bar Dish from getting the award. In statement issued earlier this week, the network said it “has been consistent on this situation from the beginning” and called the debacle ”an isolated and unique incident” involving “a product that has been challenged as illegal” by CBS “and nearly every other major media company as well.”

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Deadline Big Media With David Lieberman, Episode 16

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday December 27, 2012 @ 1:50pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Deadline Big Media, DirecTV, Dish, Netflix

Here’s episode 16 of our audio podcast Deadline Big Media With David Lieberman. This week, Deadline Executive Editor Lieberman and host David Bloom ponder what are likely to be some of 2013′s biggest questions in the business of Big Media: Are we headed for a fundamental restructuring of the pay-TV business? Will DirecTV and Dish merge? Will Pay-TV providers declare open season on pricey and underperforming channels? Will a cabler get out of the TV programming business altogether? Will there be an Apple TV and what does it mean for Hollywood? And can Netflix corner the streaming video market or will it risk overextending itself?

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AMC Channels To Return To Dish As Lawsuit Settled; Satcaster To Pay $700M

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday October 21, 2012 @ 12:26pm PDTTags: AMC Networks, Cablevision, Dish, Voom

Cablevision Systems and AMC Networks announced today they have settled all litigation with Dish Network. Settlement includes a new long-term agreement for Dish to resume carriage of AMC Networks including AMC, IFC, Sundance Channel and WE TV. AMC will … Read More »

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Fox Asks Court To Bar Dish DVR Ad-Zapper

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday August 23, 2012 @ 7:19pm PDTTags: AutoHop, Dish, Fox Broadcasting

Fox Broadcasting has asked for a preliminary federal injunction against Dish Network‘s Primetime Antime DVR service with AutoHop commercial skipping feature. Fox filed a request (read it here) with the federal court for the Central … Read More »

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UPDATE: AT&T U-Verse Reaches Deal With AMC; Dish Feud Still Unresolved

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday July 1, 2012 @ 12:07pm PDTTags: AMC Networks, AT&T U-Verse, Big Deals TV, Dish

UPDATE, 12:07 PM SUNDAY: AT&T announced that it has reached a “a fair distribution agreement with AMC Networks for AMC, IFC, Sundance and WE tv.” The deal reached today will keep AMC Networks available to some 4 million subscribers on U-verse TV. Details were not disclosed. AMC and Dish remain at an impasse and Dish has pulled AMC programming and substituted other content. Here’s AT&T’s statement:

“It was important to us on behalf of our U-verse TV customers to come to a positive resolution as quickly as possible. We appreciate everyone’s willingness to make that happen, working diligently over the weekend, so customers can continue to enjoy the programming they love on U-verse, the fastest growing TV service in the country,” said Jeff Weber, President of Content and Advertising Sales, AT&T.

In a separate statement, AMC Networks took a jab at Dish:

It’s telling that AMC Networks has historically been able to negotiate fair agreements with television providers that reflect the value of our content. Yet DISH, which dropped our networks as of July 1 never engaged with us in any rate discussions. DISH customers have lost some of their favorite shows because of an unrelated lawsuit which has nothing at all to do with our programming, our ratings or our rates.”

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