Owning a distribution channel, whether satellite or cable, guarantees an outlet for your content, making it easier to launch new networks, and fortifies your bargaining power over carriage rights.

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Nearly 200, 000 DirecTV subscribers almost didn't get to watch their beloved New England Patriots play the Super Bowl after DirecTV and Sunbeam Television, media mogul Edmund Ansin's broadcasting company, squabbled over carriage fees.

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Furthermore, there is pressure from the pay-TV companies over the carriage fee agreements.

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Whether or not the additional profits from these deals will be able to compensate for pay-TV industry pressure over the carriage fee is something that is unclear as of now.

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Estimates suggest that the carriage of freight by rail over a couple of decades in the late 19th century added perhaps 10% overall to American output.

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The meat--hot links (spicy homemade sausages), ribs and rib tips, which are the fattier ends of the rib carriage--must be cooked over straight wood in what's known as an aquarium-style smoker.

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Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.

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