CBS to Pull Shows from Dish Network if Auto Hop Ad-Skipping Continues
By Rob Scott
September 18, 2012
September 18, 2012
According to CEO Leslie Moonves, CBS will eventually pull its broadcast network from Dish if the satcaster continues to offer its Auto Hop ad-skipping tool.- CBS and other networks are taking legal action to stop use of the Auto Hop feature.
- “If they want to eliminate our commercials, we will not be in business with them — it’s pure and simple,” says Moonves. “If they want to continue down that line, then we will just not be on Dish. That’s what will happen. We will go elsewhere, and people will take our content.”
- “Similarly, he said CBS will continue to fight Aereo, a device that offers CBS content on mobile devices in New York without compensating the network,” reports MediaPost.
- “CBS and other networks are also in litigation with Aereo, but that case carries a different dynamic,” adds the post. “If the networks lose, they can’t pull programming off Aereo, since it plucks it via over-the-air distribution.”
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