But such deals for big media companies won't go far enough to replace the falling dual revenue streams of
cable affiliate fees and advertising, Khan added.
Not exact matches
In a nutshell, this means that TV - related companies who rely on advertising revenue to support their businesses need to be re-valued by investors, and that even those who depend primarily on
affiliate fees from
cable distributors — a group that would include ESPN — have likely been over-valued.
While that strategy has yet to prove itself, the focus appears to have paid off in the fourth quarter, as Time Warner's HBO and Turner
cable networks pulled in more money from subscription and
affiliate fees and its Warner Bros. movie studio had success with «The Blind Side» and «Sherlock Holmes.»
«If we use the reach and monthly
affiliate fees for each individual
cable network to figure out what the implied a la carte pricing would have to be for the network to capture 100 percent reach, we can easily see that most of these top networks would be prohibitively expensive,» Nathanson writes.
Affiliate fees are derived from long - term distribution agreements with
cable, satellite and telecommunications operators who pay us a monthly
fee for each subscriber household that receives our television programming.
Affiliate fees are derived from long - term distribution agreements with
cable, satellite and telecommunications operators who pay us a monthly
fee for each subscriber household that receives Current TV.
We generated approximately 84 % of our revenue in 2007 from
affiliate fees paid to us by
cable, satellite and telecommunications operators, which we refer to as distributors.