[opendtv] Re: News: Northwest Station Pulls Signal In Retransmission Battle
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:55:54 -0800
No, I'm saying that cable folks spend half their time watching broadcast tv,
and the loss of that would cause them to lose half their revenue. Since
they pay little or nothing for what half of their viewers are watching at
any one time, they wouldn't lose half their costs. It would fundamentally
affect their business model.
Is my math too fancy for you to parse?
John Willkie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Craig Birkmaier
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 6:19 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Northwest Station Pulls Signal In
> Retransmission Battle
>
> 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.
>
> Regards
> Craig
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