Retransmission Fees Set to Skyrocket

Overall hike projected at 28% this year

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Cable and other pay TV operators won't like SNL Kagan's latest projections for retransmission fees, which SNL Kagan expects will grow 28 percent overall this year, to a total of $1.46 billion. Because they have the most subscribers, cable providers will cough up the most dollars for the rights to carry TV programmers' content, about $842 million, compared to $484.2 million for satellite TV and $147.1 million for the telecom TV operators.

By 2017, Kagan projects, retransmission fees will climb to $3.61

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