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·An arrangement that everyone qualifies for networks.
Here's how it'd go:
1) Top 50 markets - mustcarry effective, all local channels carried.
2) Sub 50 markets, Dish can offer the neighboring market to viewers.
3) No merger, so competition exists between providers.
Example: Augusta GA viewers can watch Atlanta stations.
Dish commits to carry to offer each state though locals, so if Nebraska is not part of a top 50 DMA, the biggest market in the Nebraska state, Dish cannot offer distants there. If they want Nebraskans to get networks, they have to carry the stations from that state.
So in essence, it cuts down the number of channel carried but still there would be more people getting networks via satellite, and there is preservation of station groups in the top 50 markets. The station groups are more concerned of preserving their interests in the Top 50 markets. The smaller markets usually are in survival mode, are missing networks, have awfully produced newscasts, are not profit-makers and NAB as concerned with those.
Here's how it'd go:
1) Top 50 markets - mustcarry effective, all local channels carried.
2) Sub 50 markets, Dish can offer the neighboring market to viewers.
3) No merger, so competition exists between providers.
Example: Augusta GA viewers can watch Atlanta stations.
Dish commits to carry to offer each state though locals, so if Nebraska is not part of a top 50 DMA, the biggest market in the Nebraska state, Dish cannot offer distants there. If they want Nebraskans to get networks, they have to carry the stations from that state.
So in essence, it cuts down the number of channel carried but still there would be more people getting networks via satellite, and there is preservation of station groups in the top 50 markets. The station groups are more concerned of preserving their interests in the Top 50 markets. The smaller markets usually are in survival mode, are missing networks, have awfully produced newscasts, are not profit-makers and NAB as concerned with those.