Kolek planning to go pro
http://www.businessinsider.com/comcast-to-buy-time-warner-cable-2014-2Where the hell is the DOJ or FCC on these deals? Did our anti-monopoly laws just get locked in a drawer somewhere and forgotten about? Bad enough when Comcast was allowed to buy NBC-Universal (no coincidence at all one of the FCC executives who pushed through that deal ended up becoming an executive at Comcast-Universal shortly after... )
By the way, don't underestimate Comcast snuggling with this administration. Brian Roberts (CEO) s a big Obama donor as are many of his lieutenants. Odds are, this gets passed....with restrictions, but I would be surprised if it doesn't get through.
I was wrong, less than 1% of cable companies overlap territories in the United States. I said 2% this morning. Got the data today. If you truly are in the less than 1%, you are in a very rare situation.
That's interesting. Having lived in Chicago and Indianapolis, I've been lucky to have at least 2 choices. 3 in Indy.
Whichever one you don't live in now, can you share that zip code? I suspect you think you had 2 or 3, but you actually didn't. Humor me and I can source it pretty quickly.
I believe I had 3 in 46203. (comcast, brighthouse, uverse)
Uverse isn't cable, it's a Telco..it's AT&T fiber television (though much of it is still copper)....just like FiOS isn't cable, it is also a Telco (Verizon). I think that's where a lot of the confusion comes in, people lump them all together but they aren't.
Gotcha. Well, 2 then, I guess.
ESPN launched 15 conference-specific channels for its online outlet, WatchESPN, the media company announced on Thursday. The channels can be streamed to television via Apple TV or Roku, and they will feature live men's and women's college basketball games and replays of college football games. With conference basketball tournaments on the horizon, ESPN is offering a platform for most Division I conferences around the country. Those included are the ACC, America East, Atlantic Sun, Big South, Big West, MEAC, SWAC, CIA, Horizon, MAC, MAAC, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Southern, Sun Belt and Southland. ESPN plans on broadcasting more than 2,000 live men's and women's games during conference tournaments. The deal doesn't include the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or SEC because those conferences either already have or are planning to launch their own networks.http://www.sbnation.com/2014/2/27/5453344/espn-conference-channels-watchespn
Damon Phillips...good buddy of mine, former DIRECTV employee. This is all for lower end conferences. They aren't going to do anything that hurts their $$$$ streams. ESPN has some really big contracts up this year and they need to get carriage for the SEC network. Fun fun times.
The ACC being the exception
U.S. sides with the networks over Aereo in friend of the court brief.http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619849-93/us-sides-with-networks-against-aereo-in-supreme-court-fight/Going to be interesting
i wonder why...
Copyright law means something in this country, and Aereo is violating copyright law. That's for starters.
Hoopalooping this thread to see how Chicos reconciles this with his claim that this would never happenhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/business/amazon-to-offer-original-hbo-content.html?_r=0Yes, mostly older shows (although not entirely, some new stuff too). But I think this is just the beginning. This model will take off.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Jus. Breyer basically laid the groundwork for a simple workaround."We believe that resolution of questions about cloud computing, remote storage DVRs and other novel matters not now before us should await a case in which they are clearly presented," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote.Somebody is going to package a device that has an antenna, hard drive, and ethernet link all built in, basically a DVR on steroids. The difference is that most every cable subscriber has something like this already, not all are accessible on your devices. So if the broadcasters go after "Aereo Jr.", they're also going to have to go after all of their distributors.My guess is that ATV is only a generation or two from being able to pull and cloud OTA signals that you can access anywhere.