MCN Newswire: CBS To Cut Off Dish On Dec. 4; DirecTV, Dish: FCC Shouldn't Hike Regulatory Fees
Top Stories - December 03, 2014
CBS To Cut Off Dish On Dec. 4 After a pair of extensions, CBS has set Thursday night as the retransmission-consent Rubicon before its properties go dark on Dish.more
DirecTV, Dish: FCC Shouldn't Hike Regulatory Fees Satellite operators have told the FCC that it would be wrong to charge them a per-sub regulatory fee along the lines of that charged for cable operators.more
CSN RSNs Remain On Dish Via Extension Four Comcast SportsNet regionals remain on Dish Network's air via a short-term extension. NBC Sports Group, which operates CSN Chicago, CSN Mid-Atlantic, CSN Bay Area and CSN California, said it has agreed to a short-term extension of its carriage contract with Dish, which was set to expire at midnight on Dec. 2. The move can be viewed as a positive one, as the parties continue to negotiate toward a renewal.more
Slingbox Campaign Targets Limitations Of TV Everywhere Sling Media is taking aim at some of the limitations of today's slate of authenticated TV Everywhere services in the form of a new, humorous consumer campaign aimed at driving retail sales of company's line of place-shifting Slingbox devices. more
Suddenlink Adds CBS to On-Demand Lineup Suddenlink Communications said it has added CBS broadcast network programming to its on-demand primetime lineup, making on-demand programming from all four broadcast networks ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC available to digital TV customers. more