🚀 go-pugleaf

On 5/9/2012 2:50 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
> 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

Yeah, that's more than ESPN charged for their 27 channels at the time 
for sure.

How the fuck wouldn't a 15-year deal like this have riders like "Voom 
will provide at least 30 hours of new, original content per month" or 
"if aggregate viewing ratings fall below X for Voom content, the price 
dumps"...

Anyways, it's shit like this that makes me wish upon cable what has 
already happened to the music and bookstore industries.

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smr