[opendtv] FREE TV? Retrans Fees Seen Hitting $6B By 2018
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:10:21 -0400
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KAGAN PROJECTION
Retrans Fees Seen Hitting $6B By 2018
TV station owners' retrans fee revenues could reach $5.50 billion by
2017 and eclipse $6 billion by 2018, versus the $2.36 billion
projected for 2012, according to new research from SNL Kagan.
By Staff
TVNewsCheck, November 5, 2012 10:14 AM EST
SNL Kagan today updated its industry retransmission fee projections
and now expects that TV station owners' retrans fee revenues could
reach $5.50 billion by 2017 and eclipse $6 billion by 2018, versus
the $2.36 billion projected for 2012 .
These projections are higher than those in its November 2011
forecast, when it projected that retrans fees would reach $4.86
billion by 2017. SNL Kagan said the increased projections are due to
the success of a wider range of TV station owners in securing
sequentially higher retrans fees from multichannel operators over the
last year of negotiated deals.
By 2015, that $4.28 billion approaches 10% of the total $43 billion
that multichannel operators are projected to pay in affiliate fees to
basic cable and regional sports networks. SNL Kagan analysis
indicates that by 2018, the projected $6.05 billion of retrans
revenues would be approximately 23% of the expected $26.2 billion in
TV station ad revenues.
SNL Kagan projects that by 2018 the average fee paid per TV station
will be slightly less than $1, while each multichannel subscriber
will be responsible for aggregate retrans fee revenue of $4.86 per
sub per month.
For all five major broadcast networks combined in 2015, multichannel
providers are expected to pay $3.49 per month, or an average retrans
fee of 74 cents per TV station per month, which is significantly
below the $6.37 per sub per month that multichannel providers are
projected to pay for ESPN, $1.50/sub/month for TNT or the $1.49
sub/month for NFL Network.
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