[opendtv] Re: CES Buzz Missing on STB
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:32:24 -0500
Hey, I always believed Gore won that one. ;-)
I'm sure the market would provide if we needed multiple news sources
(and were willing to pay for them). And I agree any news monopoly is a
bad idea for society. (That would be truly "Foxed" up!) However I
cannot believe TV stations are doing this for altruistic reasons anyway.
So, just thinking selfish economics for a moment, why couldn't a news
organization that provide news to 2-3 stations or cable companies not be
more efficient than a news organization that provided news only to a
small also-ran station that carried news only to remain a network
affiliate? Is having their own news really profitable to small stations?
- Tom
Mark Schubin wrote:
Tom Barry wrote:
Maybe somebody can tell me why local news is mostly associated with
local broadcast stations? Is that just a legacy?
It would seem there would be a greater economy of scale if local news
was franchised or done by independents and then sold non-exclusively
(without ads) to anyone who wanted to broadcast it, including the
local broadcasters who were reluctantly forced to carry local news,
the local cable companies if they wanted it, and the national or world
news networks whenever something of sufficient national interest was
happening locally.
Remember the 2000 election, the one that was first called for Gore on
all networks? That's one thing that can happen when everyone relies on
the same source of news.
TTFN,
Mark
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