The problem is it is highly suggestive of a very concentrated oligopoly market. These often need scrutiny to avoid misbehavior by the major players who will be tempted to erect barriers to entry of new competition and generally avoid free market pricing and new innovation.
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Is the "problem" that 90% of what you watch comes from the majors a problem caused by you or them? John Willkie -----Original Message-----From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jun 7, 2008 4:10 AM To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [opendtv] Re: Ofcom's proposed spectrum option At 6:41 PM -0400 6/6/08, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:Similarly, here in the US we could have, as a minimum, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, MNT, CW, and PBS as the multiplex licensees. Each of which would have their nationwide multiplex over which to transmit their own and/or other content. The availability of DTT spectrum after analog shutoff could permit more multiplexes to be introduced, perhaps even some capacity set aside for regional or local networks. Instead, what we have here is sort of the opposite. We have the major networks that each appear over one stream in one multiplex, in each market (during prime time anyway). And then we have the multiplex owner, most often not one of the major networks, that decides on any other multicasts transmitted over his 6 MHz channel. Let's ask the Brits, who seem to have figured out a good formula for DTT, whether such a scheme is conducive to a successful DTT?No need to do this Bert. The facts speak for themselves.The problem is that only 5 companies control 90% of what we watch, and THEY are not the least bit interested in doing what the Brits did.It is technically feasible for broadcasters to buy content from the congloms to fill up those multiplexes. Unfortunately, it is not economically viable, because they cannot attract enough eyeballs to sell enough commercials to pay for that content.Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.----------------------------------------------------------------------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.
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