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Broadcasters hold power in TV disputes

article published on 1 November, 2010

Recent disputes between Fox and several television signal providers has shown that broadcasters have retained an upper hand in disputes over content fees. Some analysts believe that Cablevision may have allowed a dispute with Fox to go all the way to a channel blackout because it wanted to see what the government would do. If true, the stunt failed to get the Federal Communications Commission ... [ read the full article ]

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KillerBug
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_ 		1. November 2010 @ 03:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"The FCC basically claims its hands are tied in such a situation. "Under the present system, the FCC has very few tools with which to protect consumers' interests," FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass."

I already knew it was true...but this really is a slap in the face. The FCC was created with the sole purpose of protecting consumer interests...and they are openly admitting that they do not do this, nor could they if they wanted to.
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_ 		1. November 2010 @ 09:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Cablevision was manipulating. Fox was bullying. Neither company was operating in the public's interest, however expecting them to do so is grossly naive. Their motivation is profit, nothing wrong with that; all companies must profit.
The FCC is correct; this really is none of their business, nor should it be.
The only blame goes to the consumer who is paying the money to make this happen. Stop paying for subscription content, or stop complaining.
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Don't the advertisers, who are paying good money to have their messages broadcast by these networks, have ANYTHING to say about these blackouts. Also, Fox won the ratings week for the first time this fall. Do you think that would have happened without Dish's 14.3 million viewers?
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