Craig Birkmaier wrote: > And not to disagree with Tom either, there IS > an outside chance that the congloms will use > revenues from retrans consent to develop more GOOD > programs. Unfortunately, I tend to doubt this. Two > stories yesterday seem to suggest just the > opposite... Well, I tend to doubt it too, because the retrans consent fees go to broadcasters, not to the congloms that have mostly sold off their OTA assets. Yes? I guess one could argue that the retrans consent fees indirectly go to the congloms, via the station groups. The motivation to the congloms has to be that their higher quality content gives them whatever leverage they need from MVPDs. Bert _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.