[opendtv] Re: FCC Opens TV Spectrum for Broadband Use
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 15:52:31 -0600
John Shutt wrote:
> My question has always been, how does Freeview get away with it? How do
> they offer, FOTA, channels that demand $1 per sub from American cable
> providers?
My thinking has always been, a somewhat lower level of self-indulgence in the
culture.
> My pat answer has always been that they are indirectly subsidized by the
> UK's TV License Fee providing the underlying broadcasting infrastructure.
Perhaps, although Berlusconi's Mediaset channels, for example, are also FOTA,
and are not government supported.
I really do believe that if a significant enough number of people in the US
would "cut the cable," you would see the congloms a lot more interested in
seeing that some of their cable-only stuff gets on the FOTA spectrum.
It's sort of the same as housing prices. Why did the cost of homes grow so fast
starting in the early 1970s? One huge reason is, because the baby boomer
generation embraced the two-income household model. The ERA movement, remember,
and consequent stigma against women who didn't work outside the home.
So home sellers responded by jacking up prices to what the market would bear.
The congloms do exactly the same thing.
Bert
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