Sports Conundrum—Top Content, Distribution Gurus Debate Value, Models
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| September 5, 2012
News flash: Sports content costs are going up, up, up. But can it continue? Will distributors and consumers rebel? How long before everything implodes? DISH svp, programming David Shull and other panelists gathering for the U. of CO law school event agreed that rising sports costs have become a, uh… political football. But as might be expected, how they see the problem varies greatly depending on where they sit. Read more in today’s issue.
Also in the September 5 issue of CableFAX Daily:
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