Colorado Media Newsroom
October 5th, 2012, 03:45 PM
There’s a whole lotta posturing going on as Colorado-based Dish Network, the country’s No. 2 satellite network, and Gannett, the owner of KUSA-KTVD locally, continue the fight over ad skipping, carriage fees, money, and, mostly, money.
Dish says Gannett has threatened to stop broadcasting on the satellite network, blocking its signals in 19 cities including Denver if Dish doesn’t drop its ad-skipping feature or pay massive penalties. “Gannett Broadcasting demands huge price increase, mandates commercial-watching,” is the way Dish’s breathless press release put it.
Gannett says the dispute is over fees, not Hopper, the Dish ad-skipping dvr technology. A Gannett source says the company never asked Dish to disable Hopper.
The negotiating deadline for the companies is 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
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Dish says Gannett has threatened to stop broadcasting on the satellite network, blocking its signals in 19 cities including Denver if Dish doesn’t drop its ad-skipping feature or pay massive penalties. “Gannett Broadcasting demands huge price increase, mandates commercial-watching,” is the way Dish’s breathless press release put it.
Gannett says the dispute is over fees, not Hopper, the Dish ad-skipping dvr technology. A Gannett source says the company never asked Dish to disable Hopper.
The negotiating deadline for the companies is 11:59 p.m. Sunday.
More... (http://blogs.denverpost.com/ostrow/2012/10/05/dish-gannett-denver-tv/11097/)