When you look in some detail at the financial make-up of the major US broadcasters, you find retransmission agreements are what are keeping them healthy, balanced by advertising and affiliate deals. But retransmission payments are the key to the continued existence of US broadcasting, and for the popular national broadcast networks, these payments are on the rise. There are two ways to cut a deal with a broadcaster and we have two great examples of this going on this week. On the one hand we have Dish Network reporting Sinclair to the FCC, and making its complaints very public, as it prepared for a lengthy blackout of 129 channels, and on the other we have Cablevision cutting a deal with…