Re: anyone work for RCN ?

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From: Adam H. Kerman
Date: Wed, 09 May 2012 19:50

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Kristian M Zoerhoff <zoerhoff@sdf.org> wrote:
>On 2012-05-09, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>Eric <ericw2000@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>This is a little different. AMC is suing Dish for a whole lot of money for 
>>>something called VOOM. You'll have to google for the details. Dish has 
>>>appealed the suit to various levels and it's not looking good for them, and 
>>>the suit is going to proceed. This is their way of saying drop the 
>>>suit/settle or we're taking our marbles and going home. They're trying to 
>>>convey that this is another price increase they're stamping out, but that's 
>>>not really true. 

>>Wow. Voom HD had a 15 year deal with EchoStar, the Dish Network predecessor.
>>Dish carried it only between 2005 and 2008. EchoStar/Dish paid $3.25 per
>>month per HD subscriber receiving Voom.

>>Cablevision was the only other distributor of Voom.

>>I don't see how Dish can drag this out in court for so long, but I'm
>>not a lawyer. Seems like a blatant breach of contract.

>Dish is countering that Voom breached first by not providing promised 
>content. My guess is they dragged out discovery by years.

Ok, that's a point. $3.25 per month per subscriber had damn well better
buy a lot of valuable entertainment. That's something like fees paid to
HBO or Showtime at the time, if not more.

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