{"id":65390,"date":"2019-12-16T10:45:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/comcast-raising-local-tv-fees-57-altitude-sports-is-missing\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T17:45:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T17:45:49","slug":"comcast-raising-local-tv-fees-57-altitude-sports-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/comcast-raising-local-tv-fees-57-altitude-sports-is-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast raising local TV fees 57%; Altitude Sports is missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:846cb8e7-4a63-4e7c-8434-881715ebed92 --><\/p>\n<p>With no resolution in sight between the state\u2019s largest cable TV provider and the channel that broadcasts Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games, Comcast is moving into 2020 without Altitude Sports and plans to increase a separate local-broadcast fee by 57%.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Jan. 1, Comcast will reduce its regional sports network fee in Colorado by $1.25 to $6.75 a month.<\/p>\n<p>But Comcast isn\u2019t stopping there. Its broadcast TV fee \u2014 which it pays to ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and passes most of it on to customers \u2014 is increasing 57% to $13.65 per month, or $163.80 a year. The change will affect all Comcast customers in Colorado, from Fort Collins to Pueblo and Denver to Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProgramming costs are our largest expense,\u201d Alison Busse, a Comcast spokeswoman in Denver, said in an email. \u201c\u2026For example, our broadcast retransmission costs \u2013 the amount Comcast pays to broadcasters \u2013 have risen more than 1,350% since 2010, and continue to increase significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story at coloradosun.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>providers also are being forced to be transparent with \u2018hidden fees\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,337],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-television"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65390"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}