TV Everywhere might mean more value for Discovery Communications

TV Everywhere could prove to be a means for Discovery Communications to get more value for its content while its carriage deals move toward renewal, said David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications.Zaslav spoke at the Nomura Media & Telecom Conference Thursday May 31 and revealed that over the last few years, Discovery has doubled its original programming investment commitment, increased its market share and has three of the top 10 channels on cable. The network only has three carriage deals for all its networks with the exception of OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, coming up for renewal this year, with the rest coming due in a three-to-five year time frame. But he said that there is still plenty of time for negotiation.”Those things didn’t happen without a lot of effort and a lot of investment,” Zaslav said. “We feel like we should get fair value, and we will work hard with distributors to do that. One of the things that could be helpful is TV Everywhere. We haven’t given TV Everywhere rights to anyone”.