Thursday, December 31, 2015
It is the Witching Hour for AMC
1:30 PM | 
Posted by
Billy Ray |
As we
suggested in a couple of earlier blog posts, if an agreement isn’t reached by
midnight December 31, AMC may demand that we, along with hundreds of other
cable companies, pull them from the cable lineup. Our programming supplier,
NCTC, has been trying to negotiate a sensible and fair agreement with AMC for
several months, but AMC’s aggressive demands for shocking rate increases, a ten
year contract, and demands for us to add five additional channels that they own
(and pay dearly for those channels too!), simply did not seem fair to NCTC,
EPB, or our customers.
We want to
continue carrying AMC Networks and providing programming like The Walking Dead, but there has to be a
limit to what these networks can demand of you, the customers who ultimately
must pay for the programming. The terms that AMC is demanding would initially
add $2 to everyone’s cable bill (on top of the other increases coming due to
contracts already signed with other programmers) and that cost would increase
sharply every year for the next nine years. Just think about how video
programming is evolving. We surely cannot commit to paying for AMC at a
spiraling rate for the next ten years; especially when so much video programming
is going to streaming services.
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