[opendtv] Re: FCC Chairman Pai to the NAB
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 01:13:18 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Short term means that retrans consent only applies for people who
depend on a local broadcast station, to get their network TV-owned
content on an MVPD.
No Bert. The FCC required cable companies to carry all local stations
many decades ago.
Craig, your complete dependency on walled gardens has made you miss this same
point countless times. I do not need to pay into retrans consent, to view
content of the TV networks. I do not need to when I watch the usual way, i.e.
online from the .com sites or Yahoo View, and I do not need to if I watch OTA.
So, if TV stations depend on retrans consent, that is bound to be a
transitional solution, anymore.
This number of people is eroding daily.
Not significantly.
That's not only false, but it also misses another point I've made countless
times. Only you seem to think that the erosion needs to reach 100%, before big
changes happen. Even John Skipper told us that it takes far less than 100%
erosion, before business models are changed drastically. TV is a viable
business because the content of the networks is very much in demand. How that
content is delivered and consumed, though, has and continues to change. The
role of the local broadcaster has to change too, because they were the only way
for that valued content to get to viewers (in reality for OTA users, or
make-believe when MVPDs are used), but no more! Once again: as people migrate
to 21st Century ways of watching TV, the local broadcaster's role is absent
(except for local news/weather). So, these local broadcasters have to get back
the instrumental place they held.
Chairman Pai should have addressed these realities, as opposed to just
repeating sound-good ideas from decades past.
What are they to do Bert? Live linear TV is dying. Right?
Yup. OTA now is enjoying a rebirth, but for largely artificial reasons. Cord
cutters use OTA for the occasional live programs, mostly news or sports, that
they might want. In reality, even that can and should be available online, and
should be available also on the limited-use-designed-for-collusion streaming
boxes, phones, and tablets, and on PCs. So, people go to OTA to circumvent this
artificial "problem." In the US. In Europe, in many countries, the live
programs are also available online.
And there are still enough homes without broadband, that an
Internet-independent solution is still necessary. But none of this means that
people prefer live. The majority have figured it out, Craig. On demand is
easily preferable, essentially ALWAYS. On demand simply means, you watch when
it's convenient for you. Any long delay imposed on "on demand" is entirely
artificial, and therefore not to be considered unavoidable for all time, as you
seem to think. Imposing a long delay is just the industry's way of attempting
to delay what is inevitable, or to get people to pay extra.
Why should the broadcasters be playing in Las Vegas Bert?
The makers of stagecoaches had to begin making car bodies, at some point, in
order to remain relevant. It may have been difficult to understand this reality
in the 1890s, perhaps, but with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, it should
have been obvious.
Bert
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