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IPPlanMan
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The first nationwide cable company?

Aereo could become the first nationwide cable company.

Franchise/territory agreements wouldn't apply?

fifty nine
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I'm pretty sure they WOULD apply. This means that people out in podunk would be stuck with their 50 cent local affiliates, and Utahans would be stuck with censored TV.
Skippy25
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Well if by nationwide cable company you mean one that only provides OTA channels. Which I am OK with.

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said by IPPlanMan:

Aereo could become the first nationwide cable company.

Franchise/territory agreements wouldn't apply?

They would have to negotiate carriage with every television station, and it may be hard to do that after they haven't made themselves very likable by the broadcasters.

They would also have negotiate in EACH market, so nationwide coverage seems unlikely. However, if they see themselves as a cable company, they COULD negotiate for a few nationwide channels (think CNN, ESPN, etc), but seeing as a major company like Dish Network has a hard time getting that off the ground, I doubt that will happen. Aereo will probably continue to focus on the LOCAL broadcasters, and hope that there is at least 1 market with some stations that see this as a good thing.

Also: They would still have to apply the regional sports blackouts, if they apply if they are a cable company. In the north-east it gets a little iffy, especially in areas where multiple states border, and there are many teams. As a broadcaster, you can't do anything about that, as you can't stop the signal at the state line, but cable companies are required to black out per zipcode. Now, on broadcast networks that isn't a HUGE deal as most sports are on cable specific regional sports networks, but with Football on the main networks, there may be some crossovers. But that is for them to figure out.
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They didn't even have nationwide service before, so don't jump to that conclusion yet.
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That's all Aereo provided anyway, right? They didn't offer NYC service to anyone. You had to live in the NYC area. Of course cousin Floyd in Topeka, KS could use Aunt Greta's Manhattan address to subscribe but that's similar to the problem satellite company's have with self-install kits.
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They don't provide any OTA channel nationwide, do they? To subscribe, don't you have to be in that area's OTA region? In other words, you cannot live in Detroit and subscribe to NYC Aereo. Each Aereo "cable company" would be very regional.

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Yes, they always followed the law there. They are not allowed to take channels from one designated market, and broad cast them to another designated market.

Would be nice, that way I would get my programming 3 hours earlier, and the nasty time delays with live shows (think Olympics, The Voice, etc) would not apply.
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spot beams don't cover that much area some out of area but not NYC in KS (maybe other then getting NY Rsn as in market)
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and then fox, cbs and nfl will come down hard of them for offing NFL ST under the table with out paying for it.
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RSN blackouts are based on where the cable headend is and some border areas you get stuff that maybe a little out of area.

dish / directv based your zipcode

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said by Joe12345678:

spot beams don't cover that much area some out of area but not NYC in KS (maybe other then getting NY Rsn as in market)

The NY locals and LA locals are not on spot beams, but nation wide. If you do not fall within a certain market (about 2% of DirecTV/Dish customers do) you get the NY ones if you are in the 2 eastern time zones, and the LA ones if you are in the 2 western time zones. So in the cases of those 2 markets (which are market #1 and #2 on the Nielsen list) you could actually use a NY address and live in KS.
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Franchise fees would not apply as they do not own actual lines in each market- the same as DirecTV and Dish- There is a company already in Ohio that was approved for basically the same thing, but has yet to launch the product. The State told them they were exempt from any regulation of a TV provider in Ohio as their services travel over the public Internet and not required to have the company's own HSI product.
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Dish already has a company doing that for them. EyePartner.