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Richard King
03-07-03, 03:33 PM
DirecTV and Disney are engaged in a carriage dispute involving ABC Family that may lead to the dropping of the network on March 31.

Here we go again.

http://www.cabletoday.com/
reddice
03-08-03, 05:37 PM
Well at least now we know that Dish is not always the one that has disputes of channels every year.
AJ2086
03-08-03, 05:47 PM
No Dish has them all the time, atleast one or two a year. DirecTV rarely has one.
Richard King
03-08-03, 05:50 PM
Dish appears to be the leader. :D
Cheyenne
03-08-03, 07:11 PM
Any guess on the rate increase for DirecTV ?
Jacob S
03-08-03, 07:46 PM
There must obviously be an issue with the channel pricing if Dish and Direct both have some type of objection towards ABC Family. I thought I seen someone post a while back about cable companies going to possibly drop ABC Family during the time Dish was considering that.
DCSholtis
03-08-03, 10:31 PM
Di$ney is demanding a 35 percent increase in fees to carry ABC Family according to a post of a story Scott G. posted in the Directv Forum.
SamC
03-09-03, 04:39 AM
Apparently ABC-F carriage is linked to ESPN-HD.

W/o ESPN-HD, DirecTV and its partners (RCA, Sony, etc) can write off the HD set market.

They need to pay up and get this resolved.
Mark Holtz
03-09-03, 10:16 AM
IIRC, Disney paid a premium for the Fox Kids properties, which included Fox Family. Part of their plan to pay for the expenditure was through rate increases.

And, some of the programming aired on ABC Family doesn't seem to be "family oriented". After all, they did run a Alias maration during New Years day.
Steve Mehs
03-09-03, 11:54 AM
No Dish has them all the time, atleast one or two a year. DirecTV rarely has one.

How do we know that? I bet D* has them just as much as E*, but DirecTV never publicizes it. I DO appreciate the fact that the providers stand up to big media owners and do publicize it. If a channel is going to disappear (whether I watch it or not) I would like to know.
Richard King
03-09-03, 07:01 PM
Dish has them all the time, atleast one or two a year. DirecTV rarely has oneIt appears that maybe D* learned something of value in the "merger" negotiations. I suspect this will become a more frequent tactic by D* in the future.