[opendtv] Re: TV Technology: NAB, CTA, Pubcasters Ask FCC for Voluntary ATSC 3.0
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:28:39 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
This is the core issue Bert. How to get local broadcast signals on
the Internet without losing retransmission consent revenues,
Wheeler had something to say about that, in the previous article I posted.
Anyway, retrans consent has to be updated to reflect current technological
realities. As it is now, and we've been over this a ton of times, it is a
"let's pretend" game.
Let's pretend that the broadcasters actually produce all the TV content. Let's
pretend that MVPDs have to pay broadcasters for their content, because
broadcasters had to invest a bundle of money to produce it. Then, let's pretend
that the broadcasters are *not* paying a hefty chunk of it back to the rightful
recipients, the congloms. Let's pretend that without retrans consent, the sky
would fall.
But that's all a gimmick. In the Internet era, the pretend game can be ended,
or at least it can be modified.
To end the pretend game, the congloms get the revenues for their content,
direct from whoever distributes it. And those middlemen who distribute the
content, which could still be broadcasters in a new Internet role, get ad
revenues and/or subscription fees. I mean, the same amount of money has to get
to the congloms, right? Retrans consent isn't creating more money. It just
funnels it in an odd way. If broadcasters now get a ton of money, but most of
it has to go to the congloms anyway, why should anyone think that getting less
money, but keeping more of it, would be bad news?
Or to modify the pretend game, move broadcasters to the Internet, but keep the
same pretend game going. Wheeler pointed out that broadcasters introduce the
local news/weather content. Okay, so magnify the importance of that content,
don't mention at all the high value content these now-Internet "broadcasters"
would be delivering in the local market, and any MVPD that wants to include the
Internet "broadcaster" content pays retrans consent as always.
To say that a one-way broadcast channel is mandatory just to keep a pretend
game going just does not sound sensible.
Bert
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