Thursday, November 10, 2005

Another cable battle for Nexstar

The Hagerstown, Maryland, Herald-Mail has an article today about yet another cable battle, in that community, for Nexstar Broadcasting.
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On the local front, it appears the Nexstar and Mission Joplin stations will lose more customers from the fringe of their viewing area. The stations are advertising that they most likely will not reach a deal with the Allegiance cable system, which has affiliates in southeast Kansas.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Randy, did you see this?

"During contract negotiations, Nexstar asked Antietam Cable to increase the amount of money it pays Nexstar to include the station in its cable package. Lammers would not say how much money the company currently receives from Antietam Cable."

You have never mentioned anything about Nexstar recieving money from a cable system. Hasn't the assumption always been some sort of commercial time or something, not money?

Randy said...

I did read that, but I am not sure what exactly it means. Nowhere does the article have Lammers saying that Nexstar is receiving money from the cable company, so I wondered if it might have just been something the reporter had assumed. There is no mention of any of Nexstar's other battles in other communities. I took it that the reporter did not do her research and failed to recognize that the story reached beyond her community.

Anonymous said...

I'm slightly amazed that you are so stuck up on the fact that Nexstar is asking for retransmission money from the cable companies.

The sattelite companies pay Nexstar stations money for retransmission. It isn't that far out to expect cable to do the same.
Especially when you consider that ESPN charges soemthing like $9.00 per subscriber(varies per market I believe)...

And yes ESPN may bring more viewers to the cable company, but don't forget that the Joplin cable company has LOST subscribers in this mess as well...

I am a Nexstar employee, but I'm not a rabid supporter of the company...

Anonymous said...

ESPN is not getting anywhere close to $9 per subscriber, more like two bucks. And as far as Dish companies paying locals...they do that as a way of competing with cable. Who would switch to the Dish if they couldn't get their locals? The damn thing is useless in a storm and by the time you add up the cost for the additional receivers and upgrades your spending $50 bucks or more per month anyway. Cable is still a much better way to go...especially in an area where severe weather is a constant.

Anonymous said...

Yeah... I looked it up. ESPN asks 2.50 per subscriber. How DARE Nexstar ask for .03 per subscriber.

Unbearable.