[opendtv] Re: FCC: Chairman Wheeler comment on Dish-Sinclair dispute
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:44:36 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
Obviously Wheeler used his bully pulpit to get these parties to
put another temporary agreement in place.
So again, I only posted that article to demonstrate what the 1992 act is meant
to address. It is meant to address TV service, maintaining reliable TV service,
to people. That's the goal. The goal is not to play favorites among MVPDs or
OTA broadcasters. It is to regulate this blasted non-neutral monopolistic
delivery service.
With the neutral and 2-way Internet delivery pipe, the purpose of the 1992 act
is irrelevant. It serves no useful purpose anymore.
**The govt does not mandate that every retail outlet must have access to the
product of every wholesaler, Craig**. The congloms are wholesalers. The OTT
sites are the competitive retail outlets. The govt does not need to micromanage
this market, any more than it micromanages what wholesaler Giant Food can do
business with.
In short, cut out the non-neutral middleman, and you've
eliminated the possibility of this blackout.
Do you mean the ability of the middlemen to negotiate carriage
agreements?
I mean, the need to negotiate anything, which would put the consumer in a bind.
If CBS wants to block its content from the Gainesville market, on the Internet,
it is only CBS would make that decision. There's no other middleman to
negotiate with, who might force the issue.
If the latter, then Sinclair, et al will need to convince the
content owners (and the sports leagues) to give them the
rights to make the programming available FOTI.
Or the content owners or sports leagues can bypass Sinclair, or anyone else,
and put their content on the Internet directly. Or they can use Sinclair as
their CDN. If Sinclair doesn't like some aspect of their deal, the content
owner jumps over to Akamai.
When the middleman doesn't own the monopolistic delivery pipe, he doesn't have
the leverage that the 1992 act was meant to curb. The pipe itself is mandated
to be neutral.
Have you talked personally with Iger, Skipper and Moonves
recently?
Do they agree with you?
Don't need to speak with them personally, because they have spoken to the
press, personally. And yes, they do agree with me, but not with Craig. That's
why each of them has been branching out, while Craig steadfastly continues to
do what's in the best interest of legacy walled gardens.
Bert
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