[opendtv] Re: News: FCC's Martin Floats Leased Multicast Must-Carry Proposal
- From: "John Willkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:03:43 -0800
You seem to have a probelm with understanding the term "competition."
Broadcast TV doesn't sell anything that cable TV sells. Cable does $4.3
billion a year in ad revenue -- it's been going up seriously in the last
year or so, due to ads on video on demand.
$4.3 billion is a drop in the bucket on OTA ad revenue; San Diego alone does
more than 1/2 billion a year in OTA ad revenue, and we're barely a top 25
market.
Somehow, this penetrates my cave but not your noggin.
Nice to see that you are starting to recognize that "something is happening"
with retrans. Kind of difficult, I recognize, when the news belies your
preconceptions.
John Willkie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Birkmaier" <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:40 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: FCC's Martin Floats Leased Multicast Must-Carry
Proposal
> At 9:22 PM -0800 3/3/07, John Willkie wrote:
> >TV broadcasters don't compete with cable, Tom. Cable is in the business
of
> >selling monthly electronic services on a subscription basis. They don't
> >create any television programming of note, and little tv programming of
any
> >kind is created by them. Almost as an afterthought, they sell spots on
many
> >of their national networks. Many of those spots are actually used these
> >days to sell subscription offerings of the cable company.
> >
>
> What hole have you been living in John?
>
> Cable gets nearly 60% of the audience in prime-time, even higher
> ratings the rest of the day.
>
> Some of these eyeballs are watching off-network programming. But MOST
> are watching niche programming created by and for the cable industry.
>
> Now you COULD make a case that the big five media conglomerates
> control most of this programming today, but most of this programming
> is not being offered Free to air.
>
> A few examples:
>
> HBO
> Showtime
> Discovery Networks
> Speed
> The Golf Channel
> HGTV
> The Food Network
> Fine Living
> Animal Planet
> Fox News
> MSNBC
> CNBC
> CNN
> HNN
> SciFi Network
> The Weather Channel
> The Nickelodeon Networks
>
> Amazing!
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
>
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