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EchoStar Communications Corp. has downgraded Court TV from its Dish Network channel lineup to a channel tier available in 3 million fewer homes than the 13 million to whom the channel was previously available.
The move is a result of stalled carriage negotiations, writes The Hollywood Reporter.
According to a statement issued by Turner Networks and Court TV, EchoStar was “unwilling to pay the standard industry rate for a popular network that is currently ranked in the Top 20.”
EchoStar senior vp programming Eric Sahl said the company was working hard to negotiate a fair contract with Turner Networks and Court TV, but that “we must also protect our customers from unreasonable demands. It is not fair to ask our customers to pay a DBS premium for a channel owned by the second-largest cable operator, Time Warner.”
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The newly merged company…
PC Magazine will stop publishing a print edition with its January issue. The magazine will shift operations entirely online.
The magazine will be sent via email with a link to the current edition. It will continue to look like the…
Walgreens has returned to 1 Times Square with its new 16,200-square-foot flagship store; the store flaunts signs, made up of 12 million LEDs, on its three sides.
The signs, running above and below the famous news “zipper,” will include diagonal…
Following an inability to agree with studios on payment for shows distributed online, the Screen Actors Guild has decided to pursue strike authorization from its members in a move the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers calls “bizarre.”
Should…
Brick-and-mortar retailers will be marking down prices on many items this holiday season to attract reluctant shoppers, but their holiday “price war” is a mere skirmish compared with that being waged online, writes the International Herald Tribune (via Retailer Daily).
The price-cutting…
Through the first half of the year, automakers have slimmed their ad spending by 10% to $6.1 billion, according to Nielsen Monitor Plus.
General Motors slipped 6% to $1.2 billion, while Ford Motor cut ad spend by 22% to $954…
