Fox is not going to be taking the telecommunications giant to court like ESPN has over its slimmed down Custom TV bundles – at least not any time soon. “I’m not going to talk about ESPN’s lawsuit,” said Peter Rice today at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference. “I think we’ll work with Verizon, we’ll look at what they’re doing, we’ll see how it evolves,” the Fox Networks Group boss told conference attendees Wednesday. “We’ve been trying to offer our distributors some flexibility. On the margins we think some of the skinny bundles don’t necessarily offer a good value he noted “I think consumers will ask do I want to pay $75 for 20 channels (under a smaller bundle plan) or do I want to pay $80 for a 100 channels?”
“For the past 5-years we’ve really been trying to focus on five brands, Fox, Fox Sports,...
“For the past 5-years we’ve really been trying to focus on five brands, Fox, Fox Sports,...
- 4/29/2015
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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