sharing revenues on PPV

[Peluso]

Does dish Share Revenues on PPV's? If so that would make it impossible to offer a programming tier that includes all of the PPV channels for free. Are there contract limitations on PPV's?

[adkinsjm]

PPV will never be offered for free. In order to do so, they would charge around $1000 a month or so, just because of the fact thay PPV means Pay-per-View

[Mike Richardson]

PPV will never be offered for free. In order to do so, they would charge around $1000 a month or so, just because of the fact thay PPV means Pay-per-View
Actually a lot of "Pay Per View" movies are actually all day movie events and you can view the movie over and over again all day for only $3.99. Plus, you can still tape a PPV with a VCR and I think you can record a PPV to a DVR all for just that $3.99 charge.

[Peluso]

the only limitation is in the contract negotiations between the service provider and the reseller. In this case the reseller is Dish. If Dish bought universal rights to resell for a fixed flat fee, then they theoreticly can sell an OPEN PPV package for some large ammount. Say $49.00 or $99.00 a month for open PPV's. If the contract is a shared revenue contract, then they may have to sell it at four or five bucks and Dish keeps a buck or two, and the studio gets a buck or two.