 bohratomJersey Shore will rise again
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Red Bank NJ | reply to scanpa
Re: HDnet to be rebranded AXS_TV summer 2012 BTW does anyone know if AXS will now have commercials? |
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 actor90Never a dull momentPremium
join:2003-07-21
L.E.H.T., NJ | reply to andyross
said by andyross:OWN used to be Discovery Health. If they had actually reduced the carriage fee to nearly free, you'd think Comcast would have moved it to Starter? I'm guessing they assumed it would be a big hit and kept the fees high, if not raised them.
From an article from the Chicago Sun-Times:
"Winfrey traveled to the company’s Philadelphia headquarters in the hope that a little Oprah magic would result in handsome fees for her joint venture with Discovery Communications. But according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, Comcast executives not only rebuffed Winfrey but characterized her pitch as “greedy” for an unproven network."
"Today, major service providers including Comcast pay nothing for OWN, which is not unusual for a network with no ratings history. (Comcast declined comment.) But as Discovery is going without those fees, it has poured $254 million into funding the venture (far above its initial $189 million commitment)." The article can be found here »www.suntimes.com/entertainment/9···own.html
It doesn't matter where Comcast places the channel, that is all in the contract with Discovery Networks, the fact is, Comcast pays nothing for OWN. |
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I agreed with what he said and what you said. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
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Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to bohratom
said by bohratom:BTW does anyone know if AXS will now have commercials?
My guess is it will be plastered with them like the rest of normal cable channels.
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cox only carried it in one area. also it will now have an SD version |
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It's going to be something all right. |
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OWN is owned by Oprah directly (most of the programming/content is produced by her Harpo Productions) - Discovery Networks of Silver Spring, MD (in their own building where Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road meet) is the distributor/minority shareholder; it's closer to the National Geographic deals with Fox Cable Networks (NatGeo owns the content, FCN distributes the channels and acts as middleman).
On the aspect of deals, there is *still* one between Comcast and FCN (even though Comcast is now majority shareholder of NBC/Universal) - how's that for weird? |
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