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His group wants government officials to step in and make it harder for channel owners to demand higher fees for carriage and drop the channels when operators disagree.
As distributors merge, content providers such as 21st Century Fox and Time Warner fear that they will lose leverage in negotaition fees for carriage of their channels.
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Even so, it is not clear that NBC Universals entertainment networks like USA will command higher fees for cable carriage the way sports-intensive channels have.
Bikes can usually be put in the luggage compartments of buses or on the roof of minibuses and you may have to pay a small fee for their carriage.
And Fox recently completed a lucrative series of renegotiations with cable systems for carriage fees, said Andrew Tyndall, who analyzes television news for his Tyndall Report.
Broadcasters could also collect carriage fees for the stations they operate under sharing agreements on behalf of their owner, often bundling its carriage agreements with those of stations they own outright.
When Disney withheld the ABC signal as leverage to get higher carriage fees for its cable channels from Time Warner, customers blamed the cable company and Time Warner blinked.
The fee-for-service payment system predominates.
Disney had asked for carriage for new cable channels as well as a sizable subscriber fee for its existing Disney Channel, which the company wants to shift from a premium cable channel to a basic cable channel.
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CBS made news on Monday when it announced a 10-year carriage agreement with Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator, that included retransmission fees for CBS-owned televistationstionstations
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