[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: FCC Extends Channel-Sharing
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 01:52:03 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
You missed it completely.
With a spectrum utility
Once again, Craig, you wax verbose before reading my post. Once again, I missed
nothing. The idea of a spectrum utility, as you would have it, sucks, in short.
You're trying to force-fit an anti-competitive model, for TV content
distribution, in a medium that has happily avoided such market distortions.
If you fit as many broadcasters/congloms on the spectrum available, plus other
content owners piggy-backing on that same spectrum, that's the best you can do.
When they operate independently, as they do OTA, your claim of "oligopoly" is
meaningless. They only operate as an oligopoly on your anti-competitive medium,
which you claimed was "superior."
Yes Bert this has always been possible.
Then why do you go on and on as if you're inventing anything new? Broadcasters
have always been able to allow others on their multiplexes, and they have been
doing so for years. You do NOT need this other monopoly middleman to achieve
this.
But that was before the FCC set up an auction to buy out existing
licensees.
What the FCC has done might make matters a little less competitive than they
could have been (depending how many broadcasters truly give up their channel).
But what you suggest makes the situation even worse. It totally eliminates
competition for access to the OTA spectrum.
That is not a spectrum utility Bert. Each station is responsible for
its own transmission infrastructure.
Nonsense. Many broadcasters do share towers, if it comes to that. They even may
share maintenance crews. Your utility idea won't change much of this. It just
ensures that an unnecessary middleman will be forced into the equation.
The individual stations would no longer be gatekeepers
Right, Craig. It's better to have ONE gatekeeper, as oppose to many competing
ones? I would say not.
Bert
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