But you have to pay for retransmission, right?
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From: Josh Reynolds
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 4:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Cox pulls KASW from it's lineup
What we're doing is setting up, basically, a few antennas and a
transcoder. We have rebroadcast rights for locals. We have custom
middleware, and those channels get thrown into the standard rotation.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
Used to be there were must carry rules for locals. Now it is reversed.
I have seen these disputes many times over the past 10-15 years.
I wonder about the economics of building an OTA circuit into the STB.
Have
the installer put up an antenna, wire it up and don’t pay the
broadcasters.
If it was clever enough the user would not even know. Include the locals
in
the OSD and DVR functionality... Hmmm, would work for IPTV systems too...
Of course everyone cannot always receive all the local OTAs but most
could.
I wonder if you could pay the broadcasters only for the customers that
needed cable/IPTV deliver of the signal... I guess you could create a non
locals tier of service and try to put as many on it as possible.
From: Rory Conaway
Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2016 3:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] Cox pulls KASW from it's lineup
KASW is a local channel in the Phoenix area. Apparently there is a
dispute
over the cost of rebroadcasting this local channel when renewing the
contract. The reason that it’s interesting is they replaced the entire
show
with an explanation of how local channels get to charge for something the
broadcast over the air for free. It looks like they are going on the
offensive and something we need to be aware of it if we start looking at
broadcasting IP TV.
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