Interesting, Professor. As you know, I've been out of the biz for 12
years or so and times sure have changed. Back in those days, the
networks weren't yet able to squeeze the ops for carriage fees. Of
course, the ops had no real competition then as small dishes were still
a relatively new delivery system and FIOS wasn't even a gleam. So they
didn't have to budge. So as of 2010, educate us. Do you know what really
happens in those contracts? Does CV pay carriage fees to Disney as they
claim, or not as Disney claims. Gimme some truth. All I want is the
truth.
If CV doesn't get a slice of local avails, do they get a piece of the
national spots from Disney?
Anyway, I see on NY1 that CV just agreed to arbitration, so you CV subs
may be seeing Oscar tonight.

> The only entity that loses advertising revenue (via make goods or
under delivered audience) would be WABC-7.  While WABC wants to get paid
like a cable network, they do not offer local avails back to the cable
operator like a cable network does.> 

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