delawareonline - Business - Mar 15, 2010Cablevision Systems Corporation (CVC)
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Collins StewartAnalysts say similar problems could await television viewers throughout the country as contracts between cable companies and broadcasters come up for renewal amid new marketplace realities. The broadcast of the Academy Awards got restored on , but not without a preliminary compromise between
Cablevision and Walt Disney Co., the owner of the city's ABC affiliate.
The compromise will probably end up costing Cablevision customers about 50 cents a month, said Tom Eagan, an analyst with Collins Stewart LLC in New York. Advertising revenue has weakened, so television networks have started to demand money for their programs instead of advertising swaps they used to find acceptable. In the past, broadcasters would get to add channels to cable offerings, like ABC adding ESPN2, said Bruce Leichtman, a New Hampshire based cable television analyst
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Analysts say similar problems could await television viewers throughout the country as contracts between cable companies and broadcasters come up for renewal amid new marketplace realities. The broadcast of the Academy Awards got restored on , but not without a preliminary compromise between <span class="company">Cablevision</span> and Walt Disney Co., the owner of the city's ABC affiliate.<span class="sent"> The compromise will probably end up costing <span class="company">Cablevision</span> customers about 50 cents a month, said <span class="analyst">Tom Eagan</span>, an analyst with Collins Stewart LLC in New York.</span> Advertising revenue has weakened, so television networks have started to demand money for their programs instead of advertising swaps they used to find acceptable. In the past, broadcasters would get to add channels to cable offerings, like ABC adding ESPN2, said Bruce Leichtman, a New Hampshire based cable television analyst....Analysts say similar problems could await television viewers throughout the country as contracts between cable companies and broadcasters come up for renewal amid new marketplace realities. The broadcast of the Academy Awards got restored on , but not without a preliminary compromise between <span class="company">Cablevision</span> and Walt Disney Co., the owner of the city's ABC affiliate.<span class="sent"> The compromise will probably end up costing <span class="company">Cablevision</span> customers about 50 cents a month, said <span class="analyst">Tom Eagan</span>, an
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