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Re: As usual Karl cherry picks the facts.... It is hard to draw conclusions, but I've been following the comments of Barry Orton for years and I don't see a lot of evidence to contradict his points.
It was disappointing to see grass-roots regulation usurped by politicians hungry for campaign donations. There are issues affecting one's domain where there is a big difference between one-size-fits-all and local control. Yes, there are fiefdoms but they're still more democratic fiefdoms to most people than the state legislature.
A carrier is going to benefit from having to answer to fewer regulators. But citizens benefit more from local control than they would from lower prices: Even as video sources continue to diversify, 'lower prices' still just means smaller increases.
The HHH report discusses "higher quality" possibly being a factor in prices not dropping. Well, once they've tackled the barriers to entry, any gravy they can ladle on to retain market share will pay off grandly as opposed to an actual drop in revenues.
My point is that increasingly providers push cheap bastards like me from saying "Who's got a better deal?" to "The cost-per-channel-I-actually-want is ridiculous" when you add in all the bells and whistles. But on the other hand, the key factor working in providers' favor is that most TV fans are too lazy to get off their butts and unplug.
So yeah, regulate them until they bleed. If their accountants tell them it's not worth it to make money here, they can go somewhere else. It's pretty much a reverse sewer anyway; I pay a princely $17 a month to have mostly sh*t pumped into my house.
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| Of course, Barry Orton used to get paid to negotiate contracts for cities. No wonder he hates the change that took his business away. Oh for the good old days when cable rates went up and Barry got paid. The cable companies may be money grubbing whores, but Barry is a money grubbing whore too. The difference is the Barry tries to hide it. |
