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Cablevision: Viacom "Abusing Its Market Power"

At least in part this is because they know they now have an administration in Washington
that is far more sympathetic to antitrust arguments.

After all they killed the T-Mobile deal and just stopped AB-InBev from buying Corona Beer.
 
And yet I think their fight with Time Warner Cable last year over MSG had a lot to do with the Dolans wanting to keep bundling Fuse. Let's not even start with all the fights they've had with other providers over AMC and their co-owned networks. Here's a story about the Dish battle that includes the same thing Cablevision is fighting against:

http://www.adweek.com/news/television/amc-wants-you-know-it-doesnt-dish-network-141552

Dish contends that the face-off is over "bundling." Like every cable conglomerate, AMC sells its smaller networks in a package with its flagship property so that it can guarantee carriage for properties that are still finding their feet. "AMC Networks requires us to carry low-rated channels like IFC and We to access a few popular AMC shows," said Dish svp Dave Shull. Bundling isn't a popular practice with MSOs, but it's a common one.
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AMC Networks has been spun off from Cablevision as of 2011, before the last battle AMC had with Dish Network.

But when it was Cablevision owned, it was forcing Romance Classics /WE long time ago with IFC and AMC. And the Fuse bundling is still Cablevision in action. It also abuses market power in likely over-pricing to end subscribers, but subscribers are just pawns in the matter.
 
If Cablevision Systems Corporation wins this suit, there may be rate relief for cable subscribers.

But several cable networks will likely cease to exist.
 
Here's an easy fix.
Drop cable television en mass.
It's totally doable and you wont burst into flames.
Trust me, I've been cable free for 20+ years and haven't missed a trick.

The consumer controls the market always.
Remember that.
 
Robnoxious said:
Here's an easy fix.
Drop cable television en mass.
It's totally doable and you wont burst into flames.
Trust me, I've been cable free for 20+ years and haven't missed a trick.

The consumer controls the market always.
Remember that.
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That may be coming sooner than you think:
Of the 20% of respondents who were dissatisfied, 68% cited increasing fees as a reason they were unhappy. About 45.5% of all pay TV customers said their cable, satellite or telco TV bills were higher than a year ago; 38.9% pay about the same and 16.6% said their bills had gone down.

Pay TV providers are acutely aware of the issue and are struggling to find ways to address it. Most recently, Cablevision Systems this week sued Viacom, alleging the media company’s wholesale bundling violated antitrust laws; Viacom responded that the MSO was trying to use the courts to renegotiate their December 2012 carriage deal.

Within the next six months, 1.3% of current pay TV customers said they plan to switch to an online service like Netflix in lieu of cable or satellite while 4% said they simply planned to drop pay TV altogether, the Digitalsmiths survey found.

- See more at: http://www.multichannel.com/distrib...discontent-survey/141985#sthash.QkI6XKVi.dpuf
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Of course, it's an online survey, which makes me very suspicious...
 
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