{"id":4334,"date":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/2012\/06\/28\/amc-networks-rate-increase-is-excessive-att-says\/"},"modified":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T00:00:00","slug":"amc-networks-rate-increase-is-excessive-att-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/amc-networks-rate-increase-is-excessive-att-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AMC Networks Rate Increase is &#8216;Excessive,&#8217; AT&amp;T Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">DALLAS: AT&amp;T, which is in the midst of negotiating a new deal to continue carrying AMC, IFC and WE tv on its U-verse platform, said AMC&nbsp;Networks &quot;is seeking an excessive rate increase&quot; that is &quot;disproportionate compared to the viewership.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">AT&amp;T&nbsp;issued the statement about the carriage deal for the networks last night, just a few days before the current contract is due to expire. &quot;We are making every effort to reach a fair agreement and continue providing these channels to our customers,&quot; the AT&amp;T statement said. &quot;Frankly, we&#8217;re disappointed AMC Networks has decided to take its negotiations public, instead of working with us in good faith, especially since we&#8217;re still actively in negotiations.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">The statement continues, &quot;AMC Networks is seeking an excessive rate increase in our overall fees for the right to deliver these channels. AMC Networks is asking that AT&amp;T pay nearly double what we believe other competitors pay&mdash;including a smaller-sized competitor. We believe the rates they are seeking are disproportionate compared to the viewership we see across their channels.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">&quot;There&#8217;s an ongoing industry trend in which an increasing number of content providers seek unreasonable price increases from their service providers as those contracts expire,&quot; the statement concludes. &quot;If we accept this cost increase from AMC Networks, it could result in higher prices for customers, and would only encourage other content providers to make similar demands.&nbsp; We don&#8217;t want customers to lose these channels, but we need to take a stand now to keep costs down while continuing to provide the quality programming customers want and deserve.&quot;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><span>AMC&nbsp;Networks is currently in the midst of a similar dispute with DISH Network.<br \/>\n<\/span><span> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS: AT&amp;T, which is in the midst of negotiating a new deal to continue carrying AMC, IFC and WE tv on its U-verse platform, said AMC&nbsp;Networks &quot;is seeking an excessive rate increase&quot; that is &quot;disproportionate compared to the viewership.&quot; AT&amp;T&nbsp;issued the statement about the carriage deal for the networks last night, just a few days &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AMC Networks Rate Increase is &#039;Excessive,&#039; AT&amp;T Says<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"AMC Networks Rate Increase is &#039;Excessive,&#039; AT&amp;T Says. 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