[opendtv] Re: Broadcasters Ask Supreme Court to Intervene Over Aereo
- From: Kent Borg <kentborg@xxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:07:23 -0400
On 10/14/2013 10:38 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Many residential building in NYC have community antennas, perhaps even Mark's
building. One antenna array makes signals available to everyone in the
building. But the residents use their personal TVs/tuners to receive these
broadcasts. I'm not aware of broadcasters every being concerned about this
reality.
Broadcasters didn't use to be concerned about this because their
business model was "broadcast" and getting viewers a better picture was
good. Now they aren't concerned because these numbers are small and
shrinking. But if some Aereo-like company found a way to make money by
moving masses of viewers back to actual OtA viewing--even in a very
conventional sense--broadcasters would be livid.
Funny how the number of minutes of commercials per hour is higher now
than it was in the pure broadcast era.
-kb
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