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• Cable TV Will Soon Resemble a Sushi Menu
  NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- What's the biggest complaint of cable and satellite customers? I have to pay all of this money for a whole bunch of channels I don't even watch. That era's about to come to an end after approval of the Time Warner Cable /Comcast deal. The combined company has unprecedented leverage over cable networks. If you're Time Warner's Home Box Office (HBO) or Disney's ESPN you ...

Bing News

• Starz: Betting On Original Programming
  Variable rate contracts are made with growing MVPDs, such as Verizon (NYSE:VZ) or DirecTV (NASDAQ ... using third parties to lessen the level of risk. The Portfolio Approach to Original Programming Da Vinci's Demons was developed through a JV with the ...
• DirecTV and Viacom standoff risks loss for TV in general
  “Whoever can provide the most convenient way to access the programming will be the 'winner,' ” he says via e-mail. That's why the standoff between Viacom and DirectTV carries such long-term risk to the the television industry. "With DISH and DirecTV as ...
• What Viacom could learn from AMC-Dish Network in its dispute with DirecTV
  AMC is hoping to force Dish to agree to a deal, or risk losing subscribers that are ... of the season," AMC said Thursday. None of the programming and distribution executives involved in the Viacom-DirecTV and AMC-Dish disputes should be praised.
• Viacom-DirecTV Standoff causes CEOs to risk their reps
  ordered DirecTV to stop airing all of their programming after the service provider refused to pay the entertainment giant a huge increase for the rights to broadcast their signal. According to DirecTV, Viacom wanted to receive an extra billion dollars in ...
• Fighting DirecTV, Viacom takes down its shows for everyone
  In other words: Viacom can’t single out people who subscribe to DirecTV for their TV programming online ... DirecTV could lose subscribers; that risk is higher every day that this goes unresolved. The damage this will do to both companies’ image ...