"There's a lot of money at stake," said Robin Flynn, an analyst at SNL Kagan. "There are a lot more fights coming up." Flynn expects fees for network-owned TV stations and affiliates combined to reach more than $1 billion this year. That's up from over $750 million last year and $500 million in 2008. But viewers may be the losers: finding themselves with smaller lineups. Higher retrans fees may mean dropping certain cable channels.
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