This is only the beginning of the Broadcaster/Cable retransmission consent wars.
Of course Dish Network and Direct TV have sucked ass and already have agreements in order.
Wonder why...well lets see;
**One master control center...(headend) for dish....how many Cable headends are there out there and what does it cost to operate each one of those headends? You have 45 headends that can't be interconnect by fiber or whatever....how much is the cost to launch even one channel on each headend?
**Dish operators pay NO pole rental (which by the way the average going pole rate charge is over $13.00/pole).
**Dish pays no franchise fees...put nothing back in the community...rather sucks money OUT.
**Creates no long term steady jobs within the communities they serve.
So this is why when a Broadcaster comes up and asks the dish providers to cough up .75/sub for the local ABC network affiliate.... they are glad to do it....compaired to Cable operators the dish operators have an extremely low operating overhead.
Regretfully the hardest hit will be the small to midsized operators who are doing all they can just to stay alive. As always!
Again the Retransmission consent wars are only beginning.
An unfair playing field measured by any standard.
Stay tuned if you can.
Ok pro disher's let's hear it.....bring it on.
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