[opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...

  • From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:18:30 -0700

One is reminded to consider what happened to the value of the (once labeled
as worthless) radio licenses when TV took over.  Sure, there was a dip of a
few year's duration, but when one looks at the strip chart, it's hard to see
the dip now, considering the essentially contiunally uphill trend in the
value of radio licenses.

As we discussed at lunch the other day: the majority of the value of
broadcast licenses is the programming contracts, the local content, and the
derived goodwill.

John Willkie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 10:51 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: Those licenses will soon be worthless...


> Bert wrote:
> > Another possibility is of course the pay TV distributors,
> > now with telcos joining their ranks. They too would
> > oppose a good DTT system. Force everyone to use pay TV.
>
> This has been my thinking for a number of years, as you might recall.
> Add to that the CEA, whose membership generally make significantly
> more and easier money from subscription services sales, and you
> have identified the major road blocks.
> Certainly there are other contrived impediments to a successful
> FOTA DTV service but those mentioned above are the most organized.
>
>
>
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