[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: NAB, CTA, Pubcasters Ask FCC for Voluntary ATSC 3.0
- From: Craig Birkmaier <brewmastercraig@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 22:56:10 -0400
On Apr 20, 2016, at 9:28 PM, Manfredi, Albert E
<albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But that's all a gimmick. In the Internet era, the pretend game can be ended,
or at least it can be modified.
To end the pretend game, the congloms get the revenues for their content,
direct from whoever distributes it. And those middlemen who distribute the
content, which could still be broadcasters in a new Internet role, get ad
revenues and/or subscription fees. I mean, the same amount of money has to
get to the congloms, right? Retrans consent isn't creating more money. It
just funnels it in an odd way.
Wrong. It has created more money. That's why MVPD rates keep increasing faster
than inflation. Cable subscribes are paying additional BILLIONS in retrans
consent fees, not to mention higher subscriber fees for the non-broadcast
channels.
And the congloms are making more money than EVER.
The only way to move all of this to the Internet is to charge for it. Giving
away conglom content via the Internet is a non-starter.
Getting MVPD subscribers to pay "broadcast fees" is one thing. Getting people
to subscribe to local channels via the Internet, or conglom bundles like CBS
All Access, is going to be much more difficult.
If broadcasters now get a ton of money, but most of it has to go to the
congloms anyway, why should anyone think that getting less money, but keeping
more of it, would be bad news?
The marketplace is experimenting with this. But nobody has figured out a better
system than the MVPD bundles...
Or to modify the pretend game, move broadcasters to the Internet, but keep
the same pretend game going. Wheeler pointed out that broadcasters introduce
the local news/weather content. Okay, so magnify the importance of that
content, don't mention at all the high value content these now-Internet
"broadcasters" would be delivering in the local market, and any MVPD that
wants to include the Internet "broadcaster" content pays retrans consent as
always.
To say that a one-way broadcast channel is mandatory just to keep a pretend
game going just does not sound sensible.
It's the business model that Congress gave them. Perhaps the marketplace can
work this out. as you're buddy Les says: "eventually!"
Regards
Craig
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