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The media group is negotiating a multiyear contract for transmission fees of all NBC programming with DISH Network, and if no agreement is reached by Saturday night, that programming will go dark, though only for DISH subscribers.
If Dish decides to terminate its carriage deal with Viacom this year, it will have an immediate impact on Viacom as Dish has close to 14 million pay-TV subscribers.Viacom will lose around $1 billion in revenues and $400 million in EBITDA in 2016, according to our estimates.This will lead to more than 10% downside impact on our price estimate and also hurt the EBITDA margins for the company. If this were to happen, it might not stop with Dish.ate | votes | Share. Viacomâs (NASDAQ:VIA) stock has plunged around 25% so far in August. This can partly be attributed to June quarter earnings and more recently to the concerns over carriage renewal with Dish Network (NASDAQ:DISH).