DannyZGentoo FanboyPremium
join:2003-01-29 | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Offer channels a la carte The cable companies have indeed assisted the content creators in making sure this system continues. They want me to pay for Disney on expanded basic even if I don't watch it because it makes them money.
You can bet the execs have looked at a la carte and if it were to be more profitable, they would fight for it. The current arrangement of forced bundling is simply more profitable to the cable companies and that is the real reason we will never see a la carte without regulation.
Seriously, if Comcast and Time Warner stood strong, they would break the content creators in no time. They simply have no incentive to.
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| said by DannyZ:Seriously, if Comcast and Time Warner stood strong, they would break the content creators in no time. They simply have no incentive to. You are wrong. Like a poster mentioned above. Every time that a cable company stands firm, the whiners come out in full force and pols get involved demanding that the cable companies cave in, especially where sports bundles are concerned. And the pols cave in because they know the media companies can crucify them when re-election time comes along.
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DannyZGentoo FanboyPremium
join:2003-01-29 | Can you show me instances of the pols getting involved in these kind of negotiations? I'm unaware of it happening. |
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| said by DannyZ:Can you show me instances of the pols getting involved in these kind of negotiations? I'm unaware of it happening. Here is one. But I remember many more. I am just not going to spend all day on Google finding them for you.
The MASN/Orioles/Nationals issue where Congress held hearings to make sure cable did a deal with MASN:
»www.misschatter.com/janf/index.p···asn-mlb/
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Cable companies would fight the Content providers if they could. How long could a cable company do with out ESPN in a dispute with ABC/Disney? Maybe a few days to a week before Dish/Direct would see a surge in new customers. The only way it will ever be forced is via FCC order or by seeing Cable and Satellite working together in a boycott. The latter will never happen because they won't work together and the contact expirations are spread out so that the Content Providers are never negotiating at the same time. They pretty much know they can leverage an exodus of customers when they are negotiating. |
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DannyZGentoo FanboyPremium
join:2003-01-29
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By "these kind of negotiations" I meant pols getting involved when cable companies try to force content providers to unbundle. That is what we were discussing after all.
The link you provided is apparently a situation where Comcast wanted the Nationals team to break their contract with MASN so the game could be televised on Comcast SportsNet. Not quite the same as negotiating with content providers concerning bundling channels. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlant···_lawsuit
The pols were not worried about the media companies "crucify(ing) them" in that example. I really doubt politicians fear a regional sports channel owned by the Orioles.
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DannyZGentoo FanboyPremium
join:2003-01-29 | reply to battleop
It is my assertion that is will never happen because the cable and satellite companies have an interest in seeing the current situation continue. It creates a great scapegoat to point at when ever they raise rates.
If it was really in their interest to do it, they would find a way. It simply isn't in their financial interest to unbundle channels and offer them a la carte.
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| They will pretty much make the same one way or another. The first one that can figure out how to do it will be the one that gains the most because of the number of people that will jump ship to whomever can offer a la carte. |
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