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DirecTV May Drop Smaller, Less Popular Nets

Hollywood Reporter | by TVNewsCheck

DirecTV executives said Thursday that they will look to fight continued program fee increases, in part by dropping smaller, less popular channels as the company recently did with Comcast’s G4 network. They also discuss other key issues such as possible a la carte pricing, an emerging premium VOD release window for movies and the future of retransmission consent payments to broadcasters.