Tom Barry wrote: > The five companies (GE, News Corp, Viacom, Disney, AOL/TW) > control virtually all the channels. The cable companies control > the cable companies. The way I look at it, using car companies as an example, for many years in the US there were three or four car companies selling the vast majority of cars people bought. No one accused them of not competing. At the same time, people were connected to their local utilities for power, water and sewage, and maybe gas. Those local utilities were and are heavily regulated. I think the entertainment industry follows this same model, more or less. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.