Rising Program Costs Lead to Further Challenges for DirecTV

In an increasingly difficult market, satellite television provider DirecTV is finding that it is being challenged by the ever growing costs of programming.

But who isn’t, right?

The subject of a dispute between Cablevision and ABC came up recently at the Credit Suisse Global Media & Communications Convergence Conference which was held in Palm Beach, Florida. When questioned about the dispute senior VP of Financial Planning Jon Rubin stated that because of higher fees being expected by programming providers the company was having to take a long hard look at dropping some of those channels and/or changing channel lineups.