Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | reply to SRFireside
Re: Silliness.
Cable companies pay the local network stations for the rights to carry their content. |
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Not You
@216.237.x.x
| said by Nuts  :Cable companies pay the local network stations for the rights to carry their content. Uh, no. They are required to carry local stations, and the TV station can't charge for that. |
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clickie
join:2005-05-22
Monroe, MI
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You are wrong. Local stations are carried free under must-carry rules. No money trades hands for the OTA signal. If the local station wants to broadcast another channel (like a subchannel of the HD signal), then that's a separate negotiation that may require payment to the cable operator. |
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Nuts
join:2006-04-27
Forest, OH | Your right. I was confusing local stations with ones from other cities that want to be carried in other areas. Channel 10 in columbus, is carried by TW in areas that they can not be gotten via an antenna. |
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roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
clubs:
1 edit | reply to clickie
said by clickie :You are wrong. Local stations are carried free under must-carry rules. Local stations can elect must-carry or can demand payment from cable companies (aka retransmission consent.) In general, most major network affiliates take the latter option but some take the former; PBS stations and religious stations are always must-carry. See »www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/cblbdcst.html
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Ebolla
join:2005-09-28
Dracut, MA | reply to Not You
they are required to carry the channels, and yes the channels can charge the cable provider |
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bob2-00
@swbell.net
| In 2005 Abilene TX went through the whole "we are a local station and we want money from COX cable" disaster. Our NBC station wanted money from the cable company and until they got it their station was not on cable. They finally after months of propaganda from both sides are back on the cable system.
»www.broadcastingcable.com/articl···Features |
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