[opendtv] Re: Digital Trends: ESPN may pull its finger out of the Internet-TV dam, unleash a flood of change

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 07:12:12 -0500

Thanks for the info Mark. I did not know the ITU was that old. The 1865 
organization appears to have been focused on telegraphy. Radio seem to have 
come to life about the turn of the century, with Marconi's breakthrough 
trans-Atlantic broadcast in 1904.

While the ITU has fulfilled a critical role in regulating international 
spectrum allocations, they have never really been involved with the business 
models operating in each countries allocated spectrum. 

The Federal Radio Commission was formed in 1926, which is one of the reasons I 
mentioned that the decision to treat broadcasting as a regulated monopoly 
(actually an oligopoly) followed on the decision to regulate electric power as 
a natural monopoly.

Regards
Craig

> On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:44 PM, Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/4/2014 8:26 PM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>> It was competition in the electric utility industry that ultimately led to 
>> the industrialists and politicians getting together to create regulated 
>> monopolies. This led to broadcasting being treated the same.
> 
> Actually, communications regulations predate the electric power industry.  
> The International Telegraph Union (now the International Telecommunications 
> Union) was formed by a treaty signed by 20 countries in 1865.  Postal 
> regulations in the U.S, are much older as are European optical-telegraph 
> regulations, which began in the 18th century.
> 
> TTFN,
> Mark
> 
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