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Dish Frames Broadcasters As Attacking Consumers
- Multichannel News, Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:23 AM
Dish executive R. Stanton Dodge will posit broadcasters' challenge of its Hopper DVR service -- which allows subs to skip ads and view content on other devices -- as an attack on consumers in his May 14 state-of-video testimony before the Senate Communications Subcommittee.
"The networks are accusing millions of subscribers of being copyright infringers just because they want to skip commercials more easily or watch TV on iPads in their bedroom," according to a copy of his prepared testimony. Dodge borrows from the new a la carte bill introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), which would require the FCC to reclaim the license and spectrum of a broadcaster that tried to move its programming to cable.
