  baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Hot Dang! One step closer to ruling the world....the world of content, and protecting assets -ets | |
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 |  jeffro
join:2007-04-20
Bay City, MI | Re: Hot Dang! Damn Comcast is big and only getting bigger. | |
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| | | | Re: Hot Dang! said by jeffro:Damn Comcast is big and only getting bigger. Yea, they are big. Right now though, ATT is Larger than Comcast. Comcast is just larger in the cable industry for subscribers, but now, they truly will be HUGE | |
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|  N3OGHCertified GLG-20Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
kudos:1
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| No shit.
All you need to do is change the name of the company and it's awfully similar...
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| | | | Re: Hot Dang! said by N3OGH:No shit. All you need to do is change the name of the company and it's awfully similar... Amazing how many years later and prior to, that picture still applies. | |
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| | | said by baineschile:One step closer to ruling the world....the world of content, and protecting assets -ets Agreed. What baffles me is that the telcos got so large they made them split per being regulated. (BELL) WHy are the Cable Companies not regulated? Why are they not reauired to resale their service like phones compnaies do such as CLEC? some one please educate me! | |
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| | | | Re: Hot Dang! said by bassplaya75 :
Agreed. What baffles me is that the telcos got so large they made them split per being regulated. (BELL) WHy are the Cable Companies not regulated? Why are they not reauired to resale their service like phones compnaies do such as CLEC? some one please educate me!
Because the Bells, original AT&T, were built with a lot of government money.
The cable companies have spent private money to build their networks. Yes, they probably unfairly got some franchises that helped them become what they are, but they used their money to build, unlike how AT&T started out.
It's the same reason Verizon (made up of former Bells) doesn't have to resell FIOS to every company that wants to sell into people's homes. Because they are building it with private funds. Their copper plant was subsidized by the government so they must still resell it. | |
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 tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:4
 ·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.
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|  IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | Re: Content owners vs Content delivery 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? | |
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|  BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | 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. | |
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| |  tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
 ·Comcast
| Re: Content owners vs Content delivery 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  | |
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| | | | 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. | |
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| | tschmidtPremium,MVM
join:2000-11-12
Milford, NH
kudos:4 Reviews:
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| 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 | |
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| Mark F
join:2007-08-01
Fort Wayne, IN | Will we lose the wide range of TV shows, old and new, if Comcast pulls the plug on Hulu? 
Mark F | |
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 FreedomBuildWell done is better than well saidPremium
join:2004-10-08
Rockford, IL
·Comcast
| Less tv I suppose I'll be watching even less of certain shows in the near future. Comcrap can't handle what they have now as it is...Pay more for less and 'Increased value of service' price hikes are coming soon..again.
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 | The Olympics Just another thing you won't be seeing, DirecTV subscribers, as the NBC/Universal conglomerate pushes some of the extended coverage to Versus. | |
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|  VanPremium
join:2009-07-08
New Orleans, LA | Re: The Olympics Olympics lost its luster a long time ago
Sure I want to see the Dream Teams or Phelps but outside of that, nothing else is MANDATORY to see | |
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|  james
join:2001-02-26
CWCville USA | said by espaeth:Just another thing you won't be seeing, DirecTV subscribers, as the NBC/Universal conglomerate pushes some of the extended coverage to Versus. Thus forcing more people to view commercial free pirated streams of the Olympics.
When are those execs going to figure out that they're hurting themselves almost as much as they're hurting their competitors.
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neftv
join:2000-10-01
Broomall, PA | I remember When Ted Turner tried to do this with NBC and was turned down on many fronts. I read his book.
I would love to know what he thinks about this deal. | |
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| | well.. if you can't buy Disney, might as buy someone right?.... | |
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| | Arrrrrrrrrghhhhhh! I might as well order my GE appliances while I still can at the employee discounted price.
This sucks... I like the arrangement we had with GE. | |
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| | direct tv should buy let see what comcast can do with no
Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike, TV Land, Nick@Nite, Nickelodeon, TeenNick, Nick Jr., MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT, Palladia
I HOPE there will be HD SGU and other sci-fi shows torrents.
IF comcarp cable takes my scif-if away. | |
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| | | Re: direct tv should buy all those channels suck anyway. Id like to see half the crap demolished in favor of better shows.
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| said by castsucks :
I HOPE there will be HD SGU and other sci-fi shows torrents.
There already are.
RSS Torrent feed FTW! Who needs TV :P | |
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