[opendtv] Re: FW: USDTV Lands in Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Entertainment Industry Economics by Harold Vogel.

TTFN,
Mark


Steve Wilson wrote:
>  Can anyone recommend a book that I could read that would shed some light on
> the relationships and money flows between content owners, broadcasters,
> affiliates, service providers, etc?  The technology seems quite secondary as
> compared to these issues....
> Tom Barry wrote: Craig Birkmaier wrote: >By maintaining the status quo they
> protect re-transmission consent >and get the multi-channel service to handle
> the customer service and >billing. Why compete when you can lean back and
> geta check from your >competitors? But that state can only persist as long
> asthe OTA broadcasters are seen as a value added middleman between the
> networks and cable companies. The content owning networks can now easily
> switch content from OTA to cable-only channels, thus greatly limiting the
> power of the local broadcasters to negotiate at each successive renewal of
> affiliate contracts. And they can schedule every rerun season to advertise
> OTA and then switch customers to those cable channels. (anybody watched
> Psychor Kyle XY recently?) How long can this continue if the locals don't
> offer anything special besides an expiring claim they have the right. This
> declining state may continue until the content cartels are allowed to
> purchase the rest of the affiliates (I think sort of what Bert says). - Tom
>
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