It’s going to take years for NBCU to get higher...
It’s going to take years for NBCU to get higher affiliate fees for its pay-TV networks and to turn around performance at its broadcast network, but the groundwork is being put in place today, Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts said at…
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a Sanford Bernstein conference Friday. Increasing affiliate fees at NBCU networks “is contract specific, and it’s no secret that a number of the large distributors had multiyear contracts when we bought the company,” Roberts said. Asked how he balances being one of the largest pay-TV distributors, which typically seek to reduce programming costs, as well as a broadcaster and owner of several cable networks Roberts said: “There is going to be a market, and we got very comfortable with that,” he said. “We can have all the theoretical conversations about what’s fair and right, but there will be a market for retrans. … Can we help with compromises and come up with win-win-outcomes? We want to do that."