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Fee Fight May Sideline Super Bowl Fans
boston.com 4 weeks, 1 day agoMore than 200,000 DirecTV customers in Greater Boston have been cut off from NBC and the CW network since Saturday, missing the Golden Globes, Gossip Girl, and potentially the Super Bowl, until the satellite provider settles a dispute over fees to carry those stations. Sunbeam Television Corp. - owner of WHDH-TV (Channel 7), WLVI-TV (Channel 56), and a sister Fox affiliate in Miami - blacked out its stations on DirecTV as it seeks a fee hike.
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HFPA And Dick Clark Productions Gear Up For Globes Legal Fight
latimes.com 1 month agoForget the argument over whether Brad Pitt should have beaten George Clooney for best actor in Sunday's Golden Globes. The real fight is between the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), the owner of the event, and Dick Clark Productions (DCP), which produces it for television. Next Tuesday, the two are scheduled to go to court over a 2010 television deal DCP signed with NBC to keep the show on the network through 2018. Soon after the agreement was reached, the HFPA filed a suit against DCP claiming i


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