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| Comcast Doing the Smart Thing Comcast created the local sports net precisely because it would be exclusive. Precisely because it would give them a sustainable competitive advantage. That's 100% legal and 100% the point in business: do something your competitor can't do that customers care about and leverage that into customers that pay the bills.
Comcast and other companies don't exist to wipe our noses and take care of us. They exist because someone put money at risk to earn a reward. That's it. It's not evil and it's not fascist. It's reality.
DirectTV, having no Internet or voice services, has to make the one pony it has do amazing tricks to stay competitive. Answer? Tons of HD (though not any more than DISH - but that's another story) and exclusive rights to sell the NFL Sunday Ticket. They lose money every year selling it, too - meaning the sum of the fees they collect are less than what they pay the NFL each year. But they make up for it by winning and keeping customers they would otherwise either not get at all or would lose to competitors. Again, their choice.
Anyone who thinks government should force companies to give away their hard-earned competitive advantages must be willing to admit to being at least a bit of a socialist. Why stop there? Why not take away everyone's hard-earned salaries, put them in a big pile and then divide evenly? That's fair, right?
Being a consumer that wants everything for next to nothing is no different. There is no inalienable right to watch to 76ers on DirecTV. If you like them enough, get Comcast. Is it 100% convenient or easy? No, but then again, no one said life was fair. | | |
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| said by Video Guy :
Comcast created the local sports net precisely because it would be exclusive.
The point that people keep missing is that it's NOT EXCLUSIVE. Once they decided they were going to sell it to other cable companies and FiOS their argument about keeping it exclusive went right out the window. | |
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