Several years ago, CBS started asking for fees, and the News Corporation followed in negotiations last month, demanding a dollar for each subscriber every month from Time Warner Cable.
I am going to start contacting potential clients who are out of our league, being a bit more cheeky and brazen in our pitches – asking for fees beyond our standard, contacting chief executives directly, suggesting shorter timelines, and so on.
"At first the pay was really bad, asking for fees from everyone and doing some haggling to try and close deals here and there.
She also found that some creditors ask for fees, like fax charges and payoff statement fees, that would probably be considered "unreasonable" by the courts.
Consumer lawyers have challenged the debt collectors in courts across the United States, claiming that they lack the authority to threaten prosecution or to ask for fees for classes when no district attorney has reviewed the facts of the cases.
Privately-held French broadcaster TF1 and France 2 of the state-run France Televisions group at first asked for fees ranging up to 61,000 euros ($83,000) for access to certain D-Day events, according to charge sheets seen by Reuters.
The credit agencies say that they are generally asking for higher fees because of the smaller contributions from credit card companies and that their fees are strictly voluntary.
The homeowners' association called asking for their fees.
Station owners like the News Corporation are asking for substantial fees from cable and satellite operators for the right to retransmit their programming.
