MVPD, vMVPD Subs Face 2022 Price Hikes, Blackouts: Analyst

Pay-TV and virtual MVPD subscribers can expect a rough 2022 in the form of price increases and carriage disputes, nScreenMedia analyst Colin Dixon blogged Sunday. He said distributors are no longer eating some of the costs of programming license fee hikes but passing it all along to subs. He said programmers increasingly focused on direct-to-consumer offerings will also help accelerate the withering away of the traditional programming bundle.