Dish Network Chief Defends Commercial-Skipping Device As "Essential"
Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen said a new ad-skipping feature that has infuriated major broadcast TV networks is a "competitively necessary" response to the explosion of cheap Internet video. That Web video threatens the pay-TV ecosystem, he added, and it is partly caused by the TV networks themselves. The Wall Street Journal 06/08/12

Posted June 8, 2012 08:15 AM