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Chart 4
AT&T BIS-FOX RETRANSMISSION CONSENT AGREEMENT FRAMEWORK
| DMA Rank of Fox Owned and Operated Television Stations Where AT&T BIS Has Cable Systems |
Market |
Number of AT&T BIS Subscribers that Will Receive Fox's Digital Programming |
| 1 |
New York |
14,000 |
| 2 |
Los Angeles |
344,914 |
| 3 |
Chicago |
1,610,886 |
| 4 |
Philadelphia |
182,669 |
| 7 |
Dallas/Fort Worth |
451,745 |
| 7 |
Dallas/Fort Worth |
451,745 |
| 8 |
Washington |
114,800 |
| 9 |
Detroit |
133,200 |
| 11 |
Houston |
745 |
| 13 |
Cleveland |
4,976 |
| 18 |
Denver |
661,027 |
| 21 |
St. Louis |
293,812 |
| 36 |
Salt Lake City |
317,743 |
| 39 |
Birmingham, AL |
65,457 |
| 60 |
Austin, TX |
34,048 |
| Total AT&T BIS subscribers in Fox O&O markets |
4,230,022 |
| Total AT&T BIS subscribers in Fox affiliates markets |
7,069,978 |
| Total MediaOne subscribers that will become AT&T BIS subscribers if AT&T's pending acquisition of MediaOne is approved by regulators |
5,600,000 |
| Total AT&T BIS subscribers that will eventually receive Fox' digital programming |
16,900,000 |
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Assuming AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne meets with regulatory approval, and once AT&T BIS reaches retransmission consent agreements with Fox affiliate stations, over 16.9 million AT&T BIS subscribers will have access to Fox's digital programming.
Sources: A.C. Nielsen, Cable Online Data Exchange (CODE) database, data as of September 1999; Elizabeth A. Rathbun, The Top 25 Television Groups, Broadcasting & Cable, April 19, 1999, at 38-58; Paul Kagan Associates, Cable TV Investor, August 20, 1999, at 10-11.
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