 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:5
 ·Fairpoint Commun..
 ·Hollis Hosting
| Content owners vs Content delivery Content delivery, should to be decoupled from content ownership. As a customer/patron it should not matter how I access content. First-mile providers should not be in a position to dictate how/when/and what it costs to access information. First-mile providers should deliver connectivity, content owner deliver content and never the twain should meet, to coin a phase.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I assume NBC gets ghettoized. Primary availability to Comcast customers. I assume other Cable vendors will be loath to paying Comcast for content. Makes me glad to be an Over the Air (OTA) TV viewer.
/tom |
|
 IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Granted the FCC? won't allow it but when this deal goes through, What does that mean for people that don't have Cable? Will there come a time that OTA TV won't exist? |
|
 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to tschmidt
said by tschmidt:It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I assume NBC gets ghettoized. Primary availability to Comcast customers. I assume other Cable vendors will be loath to paying Comcast for content. They already do that now. Comcast already owns E!, Versus, Golf Channel, Style and G4
Makes me glad to be an Over the Air (OTA) TV viewer.
/tom
Until Comcast turns NBC into a cable only network then Disney sees what a great idea that is and does that with ABC. Then Fox sees how great that works out and does that too. After CW, MyNetwork and ION go belly up then all you'll be left with in about 10 years is CBS and Jesus channels. |
|
 tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
 ·Comcast
| said by BF69  Until Comcast turns NBC into a cable only network then Disney sees what a great idea that is and does that with ABC. Then Fox sees how great that works out and does that too. After CW, MyNetwork and ION go belly up then all you'll be left with in about 10 years is CBS and Jesus channels.
[/BQUOTE : I doubt that will happen for a long time, if ever. What drives these high values is advertising revenue, which increases with the more eyeballs exposed. Cutting off broadcast would kill a large part of that revenue. The more likely scenerio is MORE exposure ad coordination across ALL sources, so if you watch OTA, cable, online, or TV everywhere, you would see a similar ad at any given time (exact content and style modified to fit the limitations of each medium and adjusted to fit the demographic of the typical user of each venue) It won't be about less, it will be about more of the same  |
|
| reply to BF69
MYNetwork is part of fox and does have some local sports at least in Chicago.
CW / WGN Chicago has the best weather man in the city as well local sports.
NBC likely is forced to have Sundry Nigh football on OTA maybe it will be likely MNF only Free and on OTA for the local team.
Fox can just be SKY 1 and be not on OTA but they should pick up SGU from sci-fi as well. |
|
tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:5 Reviews:
·Fairpoint Commun..
·Hollis Hosting
| reply to BF69
said by BF69: After CW, MyNetwork and ION go belly up then all you'll be left with in about 10 years is CBS and Jesus channels. As long as that doesn't happen to PBS we are OK. But if commercial stations go away Congress and the FCC will probably be very aggressive in selling off the bandwidth to the highest bidder putting an end to over the air (OTA) TV.
I was in the hospital several years ago. At the time I was debating about upgrading our antenna or going with Cable or Sat. Watching cable was an enlightening experience. While there were interesting shows that were unavailable (OTA) ratio of commercial to program was so bad I pretty much lost interest.
/tom |
|
Mark F
join:2007-08-01
Fort Wayne, IN | reply to tschmidt
Will we lose the wide range of TV shows, old and new, if Comcast pulls the plug on Hulu? 
Mark F |
|
