[opendtv] Re: Retransmission Letters Fly on Capitol Hill
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:58:30 -0500
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> If the politicians really want the spectrum back, all they need
> to do is eliminate retrans consent, and/or impose spectrum fees
> like those paid by many other industries.
On this point, I have two responses.
1. If Congress did eliminate FOTA TV, it wouldn't do anything but increase the
cost of MVPD subscriptions. Any amount of competition the MVPDs do have now,
from FOTA, would vanish. So they could get away with even higher fees.
2. Governments have always had ways of getting the word out to the population,
for "free." Either the town crier, or posters all over the place, or pamphlets
or leaflets, or whatever. FOTA TV and radio took over that role, years ago. So
it seems unlikely that they would want to get rid of it entirely. At most, they
would get rid of the current systems, and replace them with "free" service over
other platforms.
Bert
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