Carriage fees are the fees that television networks or channels charge to cable or satellite providers for carrying their content. It's like a rental fee for the right to broadcast those channels to viewers. Full definition
With Verizon's modified à la carte pricing, broadcasters face the prospect of losing out on some of the money they make in carriage fees for all of the channels they offer, unless they can broker new deals with Verizon (possibly assigning even higher fees to more in - demand channels). (fortune.com)
DirecTV dropped The Weather Channel from the screens of its roughly 20 million customers early Tuesday morning after the two couldn't come to terms on carriage fees. (entrepreneur.com)
The working theory is that by aggregating TV networks, a merged company could bargain for more carriage fees from the pay TV distributors like Charter or Comcast. (recode.net)