Dish Network’s decision to stop carrying AMC, WE and IFC...
Dish Network’s decision to stop carrying AMC, WE and IFC last month is a strategic mistake, said Richard Greenfield, BTIG analyst. Although subscriber losses may have been minimal since dropping those AMC Networks channels, “we expect the pace of disconnects…
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to increase as key original programming returns to AMC,” he wrote investors. The DBS company will likely lose VOOM HD’s lawsuit against it, he said. VOOM is a subsidiary of Cablevision, which claimed that Dish breached a contract to carry the defunct network (CD Feb 1 p7). Dish seems to be in a weak legal position, “particularly given the spoliation sanctions and lack of an expert witness to refute VOOM’s expert witness testimony related to its cost structure and damages suffered,” Greenfield said. Dish had no immediate comment. The odds appear to be heavily in the favor of Cablevision and AMC, said Craig Moffett of Bernstein Research. They appear to have a huge head start, “having already won an adverse-interference recommendation to the jury related to Dish having destroyed documents,” he said in a research note.