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| | why hasen't the FCC forced cable to offer ah la cart? | |
|  fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: why hasen't said by xerxes3642:the FCC forced cable to offer ah la cart? Because it would be death to the FCC.
I still can't understand how anyone here wants to make a deal with the devil.
The ONLY television that the FCC REALLY has the ability to regulate is that transmitted over the public airwaves.
What business do they have getting involved in a private business where the government has given not a dime to build? Cable paid to wire itself, and it's CABLE that supports the GIVERnment... Since people want to have a luxury item in their home and don't like what it costs, they cry to the GIVErnmnet? worse, they turn to the FCC? If you want a cheaper rate plan, get a dish.
I want to pay cheaper prices for the cars I drive.. shouldn't I be able to get the givers to force a reduction in price for the car I want to buy?
Until satellite carried networks are considered a necessity, the government needs to step out of the way and let carriers kill themselves.. If you don't like the price of cable or satellite, don't buy it. You have that choice. Or, first have the givernment state that television is a necessity in life. Then.. see what happens... but until then, the government has NO business telling cable how to sell their products.. further, you guys CONSTANTLY blame cable and satellite (more so cable even though satellite does the same time) for how tv is sold. Cable just carries the channels... it's the networks that write the contracts and sets the rules. ESPN anyone? I NEVER watch that channel and still pay upwards to $2.50 for it.. and I HATE sports... find it completely useless and a waste of time, and worse off, a waste of public money. BUT, it's a private industry selling a luxury item and I realize that.
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| | RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | Re: why hasen't "The ONLY television that the FCC REALLY has the ability to regulate is that transmitted over the public airwaves"
Wrong. So wrong. So wrong on so many fronts.
Cable companies are regulated as carriers, not as products. By your logic the telcos should not be regulated either.
I suppose you think that cable companies used their own money to wire everyone up. Wrong. We all financed it as customers, investors and taxpayers who footed the tax breaks and monopoly franchises back in the 1980s.
Unfortunately for you those same poor, misunderstood cable companies own lots of the channels they carry, so they can't legitimately whine about program costs increasing when they are behind the increases in the first place.
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| | | fiberguyMy views are my own.Premium
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kudos:3 | Re: why hasen't RD,
the comment you quoted was meant more in reality.. I don't care what they are regulating now.. I still believe that government over reaches daily beyond their powers.
Yes, I DO believe that cable companies wired up with their own money. The customer has no ownership in the system by paying their bill. Based on your logic, I should be credited for building Best Buy and American Airlines too? Almost EVERY business gets tax breaks so that's not a winner and monopoly franchises is pure spin.
To continue forward, yes, I think that FCC should stay out of telco delivered TV as well. TV IS NOT A UTILITY. ANYTHING other than local television over open air public airways is luxury TV.. ENTERTAINMENT. I am NOT one for government regulation on entertainment.
As for cable operators owning a 'few' of the networks they carry? So? Until the day that DirecTv and NFL stop with the exclusive carriage agreement is the day that I will start supporting the notion that cable companies should open their signals to other carriers.
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| | | | | | Re: why hasen't said by fiberguy:Yes, I DO believe that cable companies wired up with their own money. The customer has no ownership in the system by paying their bill. Based on your logic, I should be credited for building Best Buy and American Airlines too? Almost EVERY business gets tax breaks so that's not a winner and monopoly franchises is pure spin. Actually, you do have a say. If you did not shop at Best Buy, they would not be in your neighborhood. Airlines used to be regulated (until the early 80's) and had guaranteed routes and fares.
Monopoly franchises are not pure spin, they are a reality. I saw it first hand in Baltimore during the 80's. If you had exclusive rights to an area, you were going to make money. This was way before DSS services were even developed for home use. | |
| | | | RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | You should care what they are regulating now. That's what you are whining about.
That Best Buy (or Wal Mart or Lowes or whatever) is probably sitting on subsidized land, in a single-purpose TIF district, from which long-time residences and businesses were scraped under "quick take" powers and paid fifty cents on the market-value dollar. If you pay property taxes in that jurisdiction you certainly are subsidizing that store, just as the taxpayers of the 1930's subsidized the installation of power and telephone service. As a business owner I can assure you that the income tax break I get by being able to deduct staples and copy paper is nothing like having your property taxes given back to you in low- or no-interest loans or getting 40 acres of land for a buck.
I just happen to be old enough to have started in the telecom business in the late 1970's while in college and have friends who were part of the cable TV boom of early 80's. Those original franchise deals were very exclusive and very lucrative as cities wanted to get themselves wired up first.
You should go read up on how many cable networks Time Warner owns. Or Comcast for that matter.
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kudos:3 | Re: why hasen't said by RadioDoc:You should care what they are regulating now. That's what you are whining about. Here we are again... anyone that doesn't agree with you is "whining"... You're not right and you're not wrong... neither am I.. there ARE, however, different ways of looking at things. I just view the world that same way your side does.
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