 jmn1207Premium
join:2000-07-19
Ashburn, VA | Another MSG HD? Do any of these channels fall under a similar terrestrial loophole that Cablevision enjoys with MSG HD?
Is this how the cable conglomerates will fight back the better picture quality and superior bandwidth of the telco provided TV services, by gobbling up the content and keeping it to themselves?
I'm sure these are all satellite fed channels, but I still don't like the idea of a provider owning the media content. |
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 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | comcast owns a few stations, e!, v.s. at the top of the list. i believe most other companies offer those in HD; comcast doesnt horde their content like cablevision is doing. |
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cacoPremium
join:2005-03-10
Whittier, AK | »www.comcast.com/corporate/about/···rks.html
The only channel that use to get some eyeballs in my house was Sprout and my kids have outgrown it and g4 which is not included in Dtv package I get now.
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 elios
join:2005-11-15
Springfield, MO | G4 was crap
TechTV and ZDTV were much better till comcrap gutted them |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | said by elios:G4 was crap TechTV and ZDTV were much better till comcrap gutted them Targeting non-geek teenage basement dwellers who live with their mom and skateboard and goto anime conventions is more profitable than targeting IT geeks. |
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Actually, Comcast owned neither.
TechTV was owned by a JV of Jones Communications (Comcast *did* acquire a lot of the Jones cable systems, but not the production arm) and ZD (which owned ZDTV outright and spun part of it off to CNET, Inc.) and used to be Jones Computer Network.
A lot of that failure was part of the general meltdown of ZD under SoftBank ownership. (Softbank was a Japanese media conglomerate that attempted to become a *global* media conglomerate, by purchasing everything from ZD to COMDEX.)
Sorry; you can't blame that on Comcast.
(Most of the current Comcast footprint in the Washington, DC cluster is, in fact, ex-Jones Intercable; the exceptions are Montgomery County, MD, Arlington County, VA (both ex-Prime Communications), Washington, DC proper (ATTBI) and Loudon County, VA/Frederick County, MD (Adelphia).) |
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