![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The broadcast giant is trying to use its market power to demand unreasonable rate increases while intentionally using millions of Americans as pawns in their negotiations,” Dish said Thursday. “Despite generating nearly $11 billion in revenue during the first nine months of this year and completing a billion-plus dollar acquisition of a wireless company, Dish has proposed rates that go significantly backwards and, in addition to risking the removal of Nexstar’s local broadcast stations, is threatening to also drop Nexstar’s cable network, WGN America, from its system.”ĭish recently made a deal with NFL Media to restore NFL Network and NFL RedZone to its service just before the start of the 2020-21 season, the latest in the company’s traditionally hard-line stance in such negotiations it still has no deal for Sinclair’s RSNs and it hasn’t carried HBO since 2018.Įarlier this week it said that Nexstar is “trying to strong-arm companies like Dish to pay outrageous rates and force unprecedented increases onto customers.” “Since July, Nexstar has been negotiating tirelessly and in good faith in an attempt to reach a mutually agreeable multi-year contract with Dish, offering Dish the same fair market rates it offered to other large distribution partners with whom it completed successful negotiations in 20,” Nexstar said in a news release today. ViacomCBS And Dish Network Ink Multi-Year Carriage Renewal
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