Disney Pitches Value of ROI Disribution Models

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Tells Congress that high-value calm depends on remuneration for carriage

By John Eggerton — Broadcasting Cable, 6/11/2013 11:49:47 PM

Disney Media Networks tellurian placement boss Ben Pyne skeleton to tell Congress that theretransmission agree regime is operative good as a approach to protection MVPDs recompense broadcatsers for a value fundamental in their signal–“the lion’s share of a many watched programs on television,” internal news and puncture information–and to concede broadcasters to continue to be means to yield peculiarity content.

That is according to Pyne’s prepared testimony for a Jun 11 conference in a House Communications Subcommittee on a reathorization of STELA, a law substantiating a mandatory permit for carriage of dependent TV hire signals.

“Quality calm is costly to produce,” he said. “Last year, we spent approximately $3 billion producing programming for ABC and a owned stations.”

Pyne argues that retrans impasses are comparatively rare. “Over a years thousands of secretly negotiated agreements for retransmission agree have been reached with intensely few interruptions of service.”

Pyne pronounced Disney wants a programming to be carried by cable, satellite, and telco video providers, though also suggested there were other avenues.

As if expecting a doubt about broadcaster antithesis to a Aereo TV hire vigilance online delivery service, Pyne says that Disney is committed to improving a spectator experience, including creation TV stations accessible online around WatchABC, a just-launched use that allows viewers in New York and Philadelphia to watch their internal hire online, on intelligent phones and on tablets in their home market, a use he pronounced will enhance to other markets this summer. He pronounced Hearst also skeleton to launch WatchABC on a ABC affils.

He also forked to ABC’s partial tenure of Hulu, and a calm deals with Netflix, Amazon, Streampix and “even” X-box.

But while it has a lot of new play dates in a multichannel world, ABC still values that MVPD outlet, pronounced Pyne. “While all of these new forms of placement are vicious to a future, we continue to place a really high value on distributing calm by a MVPDs,” he said. “We trust that monthly video subscriptions purchased by a strenuous infancy of American households continue to be a extensive value.”

The pivotal to all those distributors, Pyne forked out, was that any allows for a lapse on investment.

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