At 10:12 AM -0800 1/3/07, John Willkie wrote:
They aren't extortion payments, since cable firms have a choice of content -- even multiple sources for network programming if they want to pay 3.5 cents per subscriber per month per channel, and nothing unlawful is occurring. They can, if they have the cojones, create their own high-demand programming to actually compete with broadcast. If the compulsory copyright license, must carry/retrans consent and other cable benefits were eliminated today, cable would lose more than half their revenue. OVERNIGHT. The rules of which you whine actually prop up cable, and are long overdue for sunsetting.
What are you talking about? Are you saying that cable would lose half of its content?I do agree that about half of our cable bills is being paid to various networks in the form of subscriber fees. But the cable companies do not get to keep this revenue., they are just the toll collectors.
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