Entertainment Industry Economics by Harold Vogel. TTFN, Mark Steve Wilson wrote: > Can anyone recommend a book that I could read that would shed some light on > the relationships and money flows between content owners, broadcasters, > affiliates, service providers, etc? The technology seems quite secondary as > compared to these issues.... > Tom Barry wrote: Craig Birkmaier wrote: >By maintaining the status quo they > protect re-transmission consent >and get the multi-channel service to handle > the customer service and >billing. Why compete when you can lean back and > geta check from your >competitors? But that state can only persist as long > asthe OTA broadcasters are seen as a value added middleman between the > networks and cable companies. The content owning networks can now easily > switch content from OTA to cable-only channels, thus greatly limiting the > power of the local broadcasters to negotiate at each successive renewal of > affiliate contracts. And they can schedule every rerun season to advertise > OTA and then switch customers to those cable channels. (anybody watched > Psychor Kyle XY recently?) How long can this continue if the locals don't > offer anything special besides an expiring claim they have the right. This > declining state may continue until the content cartels are allowed to > purchase the rest of the affiliates (I think sort of what Bert says). - Tom > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.