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re: Aereo Loses Copyright Fight
Posted on 6/25/14 at 1:58 pm to KosmoCramer
Posted on 6/25/14 at 1:58 pm to KosmoCramer
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The market would weed out TV that people don't watch or want to pay for. Not really a problem, that is part of what bloats cable costs as it is.
This IS a problem. This would stunt creativity and risk taking on TV at a very high rate.
A channel like AMC probably doesn't risk creating shows like Breaking Bad or Mad Men if they don't have the protection of a long term cable carriage deal.
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What I would see happening is for something like the Big Ten to not renew contracts with ESPN/ABC and instead broadcast all the games on their own network (BTN) and charge a la carte for that.
This could create a huge issue where if each conference did this, it would be a huge cost. But you could see any game you wanted to pay for.
The entire reason the BTN is so successful is because its on basic cable deals all throughout their footprint.
If they went a la carte they would be losing hundreds of millions in revenue.
The only way to make it back would be to substantially raise the prices for the channel which is bad for anyone who wants to watch it.
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Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:31 pm to Dr RC
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This IS a problem. This would stunt creativity and risk taking on TV at a very high rate.
AMC wouldn't go belly up. And even if they did, those ideas would be put into use by other stations or in different forms like Netflix, etc.
People are going to start using the Netflix model of original series putting them out a season at a time via streaming. It's the way of the future.
Posted on 6/25/14 at 2:34 pm to Dr RC
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The entire reason the BTN is so successful is because its on basic cable deals all throughout their footprint.
They get a very small fraction of money from each station, which adds up.
If they charged $5 a month of $50 a year, I'd buy that (if they had more games on there) and the ESPN family of networks and call it a day and stream everything else I wanted.
ESPN and others that offer live content are the only providers that have customers over a barrel right now. Every other show can be retrived via the internet whether legally or illegally.
I think ESPN realizes this and is working to get ESPN3 and WatchESPN together to where if they found it economically viable, they would break away from Cable companies all together.
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