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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Sean T. @ Mar 8th 2008 2:31PM
People still live in Kansas??? ;-)
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...