‘Bully-Boy Tactics’ From Dish Net’s Ergen
Dish has joined two other pay-TV companies, Time Warner Cable and DirecTV, to form the American Television Alliance. ATVA’s strategy, led by the big three, is simple — to manufacture as many TV blackouts of both cable networks and local broadcast stations as possible in hopes that Congress will “reform” a system that ATVA’s members have deliberately tried to break.
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Yep, TVFreedom just hates the pay-TV gatekeeper … until somebody (try Sens. Rockefeller & Thune) tries to take it away.
Local Choice has a simple formula for TV stations on pay-TV systems: Charge as much as you want and keep all the money. That means no more retransmission consent, no more TV blackouts, and, I suppose, no more TVFreedom. Please follow me on Twitter @TedatACA
Perhaps Congress should do the same for ALL cable channels, especially as Turner and AMC, listed in the story would not have been influenced by Local Choice. Then it becomes clear exactly what the MVPD is being paid for delivery – and actually, no reason for customer to purchase internet AND linear TV Channels delivery..