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 ·AT&T Midwest
| OTA Broadcast still beats the diapers off of Internet streaming for one reason: There is no incremental cost per viewer. It costs the station the same amount of money to transmit to one TV as it does to transmit to six million. Satellite has similar economics, and cable does too but they have to actually connect the subscriber and maintain the delivery channel and bandwidth necessary to get to them so it's not the same as the "free" delivery OTA has.
Until a viable broadcast mechanism exists on the Internet this is all just a pipe dream (pun intended).
Dave might want to sharpen his pencil though: "This compared to broadcast over the air video, which costs a few pennies per hour to distribute." That's absurd. The electric bill for one transmitter is far higher than "a few pennies per hour", let along what the operator gets paid, the station's fixed overhead, and what it costs to get the program to the station in the first place. However, once you pay for that you're home free.
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Toolmaster of La Grange. |
