Cable pricing fight rages

[Mark Holtz]

From Yahoo/USA Today (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=677&e=5&cid=677&u=/usatoday/20030224/bs_usatoday/4892086):

Cable pricing fight rages

If you've ever seen the Three Stooges, you already know the script about cable rate increases.

Channels raise prices operators pay for programming. Operators then increase consumer fees. And consumers just get angry.

But programmers and operators -- Moe and Larry -- now are squaring off to smack each other in what could be a nasty fight over costs. And the pain for both might be long lasting, even though it probably won't lower prices for consumers.

Full Story Here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=677&e=5&cid=677&u=/usatoday/20030224/bs_usatoday/4892086)

[Bogy]

So Moe and Larry have to worry whether Curly will split to join Abbott and Costello -- although that may be less of a problem this year now that EchoStar's Dish Network and DirecTV have also raised their prices.
If it weren't for those constant price increases from DBS, perhaps cable customers wouldn't be facing increases as often. :D