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Seriously though, if the station gets too greedy for the cable company to negotiate a reasonable fee for 'retransmission consent' they will force the 'must carry' provision onto the cable provider.

I *love* this statement; "We are happy that both services do pay to carry our channels". It's always about the money.

It's not pretty, but broadcasters have a lot of legal resources at their disposal to protect their business model.

Nothing a little competition from broadband, net neutrality and IPTV couldn't solve...
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Cox is the only cable company in town and they act like it!

I recently switched from Cox to DISH and am getting WIBW over the air & sat. so I can care less about the pending agreement

and yes, people do still live in Kansas!]]>Mar 10th 2008 7:25PM