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Re: Offer channels a la carte 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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2 edits | 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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