The owner of WLUK-TV (channel 11) in Green Bay is threatening to pull WLUK off Charter cable systems throughout Northeast Wisconsin if an agreement about retransmission isn’t reached by June 30.
The agreement between LIN TV and Charter includes LIN’s stations in Green Bay and Grand Rapids, Mich., Hartford–New Haven, Conn., Springfield, Mass., Dayton, Ohio, Providence, R.I., and Toledo, Ohio.
“Most cable operators, like their satellite and telephony competitors, now understand and acknowledge that fair and equitable compensation is essential to ensure the viability of our local outlets which are such a big part of the value they provide to consumers,” LIN Executive Vice President Digital Media Gregory Schmidt told Television Business Report.
“Charter charges you a fee to provide WLUK-TV Fox 11. It also charges you a fee to provide cable networks. Charter shares that fee with the cable networks. It has never shared that fee with us,” said WLUK vice president and general manager Jay Zollar in a letter posted on WLUK’s Web site. “We have asked Charter to share the fee with us as well, which amounts to less than a penny a day.
“We only want the same treatment as the cable networks, so we may compete on equal footing and provide both high quality local news and premium sports and entertainment programming. Without the same subscriber fees that cable networks receive our news quality will suffer and we will not be able to compete with the cable networks.”
Dish Network is offering a $50 Mastercard prepaid card for switching from Charter to Dish.
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