Saturday, July 5, 2008

KRCG Off Dish...

It seems that these disputes are becoming more common around the nation. KRCG-TV, based out of Jefferson City, went off of Dish Network, effective midnight July 3 because the two could not reach an agreement on what was a fair compensation concerning subscription rates. The Lake Expo has a good write-up concerning what the incident is all about.

This can't be good news for KRCG, who has been fighting bad publicity recently after canning long-time sports director Rod Smith. The lack of tv viewers means less they will be able to ask for advertising rates if this blackout continues.

This isn't the first time a Missouri station has been in this kind of a dispute with a satellite or cable company. Joplin duopoly KSNF and KODE had a similar dust up with local cable provider Cable One back in 2004.

We shall see how long this feud lasts. It essentially comes down to who holds out the longest. My bet would be on Dish. We shall see...

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