Future of Cable or DBS TV in public areas (Restuarants, Gyms, Corporate Offices)

[e-dawg]

Since a lot of business are tuning out of cable because of the cost and the equipment. Will we see a lot of in-house multi-channel platform instead of relying on local Cable or DBS to provide business with multichannel?

 

[Darth_vader]

I'd rather that it all just went away altogether. If I want to watch television/DVB, I'll just stay home. For example, when I go to Mickey Dee's, I want to go there and order my three cheeseburgers and cup of pop 50x bigger than the largest known human bladder, listen to my tape and read my book in a television-free environment. Well, I guess I can always stay in the truck......

Even if the TV set in the hotel room at Pendleton was removed from the cabinet, I wouldn't miss it, not that I ever really watch/ed it for more than twenty minutes a trip anyways. (Red Lion've already rid themselves of their On Command gear, so that right there is a step in the right direction.)

 

[Markxxx]

But a lot of those places get payment. I worked a temp job in a gym and the gym was paid by a local TV stations to keep the channel on at the gym.

This is why you only had three channels at the gym, despite all the TVs. Sometimes the same station was on three TVs right in a row.

I imagine it works the same with other places.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Since it seems that every restaurant, gym, haircutting place and doctors office I go to anymore
has CNN on (and those are virtually the only places I ever see CNN anymore), I had presumed that
some soft form of Payola was occurring.

 

[mjlarochelle]

You'll never see cable/satellite TV go away at sports bars.

I have been to one bar that put a UFC match on every single TV. My friend and I wanted to see a Vancouver-Chicago hockey game but the bar refused to put it on even one TV. That was lost revenue for them that night since we left (I have zero interest in UFC), but I would suspect UFC paid the bar to have the match on exclusively.

 

[jsu5381m]

Why did businesses decide to put TVs there in the first place?

 

[flytrap]

It wouldn't bother me one bit if they take cable out of resturants. The sound is usually off and you have a talking head and you can't hear what he is saying anyway. Also in nearly all of the businesses I've been to that has TV, they have crappy SD cable connected to a high definition set and they have them set to stretch-o-vision which is a pet peeve of mine. I can't stand to see a state of the art HDTV with squashed and bloated football players on them, or a NASCAR race that looks like they are driving stretch limosines. I wish they would either hook up the cable or dish correct or get an antenna. There is no excuse for a TV being messed up like that.

 

[sandiegoinexile]

Since a lot of business are tuning out of cable because of the cost and the equipment. Will we see a lot of in-house multi-channel platform instead of relying on local Cable or DBS to provide business with multichannel?

Not sure where the evidence is for "business tuning out". If anything, there are more TV setups in more places than ever. Nearly every remodeled fast food location now gets a flat screen or two. And when there's not TV, there's SiriusXM.

The economy is still in the doldrums, so I suspect a few cost-cutters have slashed their AV budget. A few solid quarters of GDP growth and TVs wil be back to just being he cost of doing business.

Besides, it's not as if stores/restaurants are spending hundreds of dollars on Showtime/HBO/extended digital cable. A basic cable setup can be less than $50 a month. Even less if the basic tier has the requisite news/sports channels (CNN/MSNBC/FOX/ESPN1/2).

 

[DToTheJ]

...I worked a temp job in a gym and the gym was paid by a local TV stations to keep the channel on at the gym. This is why you only had three channels at the gym, despite all the TVs...

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you worked at Planet Fitness. They've got a dozen TV's, all which carry between three to four channels across them.

Meanwhile, another fitness chain, Fusion, at least in The Bronx, has four cable boxes hooked up to about a dozen TV's over treadmills. No mandatory channels are tuned in, but on occasion, if customers request a channel, they'll turn it on for them - and it will then air on three TV's.

 

[imhomerjay]

Since a lot of business are tuning out of cable because of the cost and the equipment. Will we see a lot of in-house multi-channel platform instead of relying on local Cable or DBS to provide business with multichannel?

Not sure where the evidence is for "business tuning out".

There isn’t any on any widespread scale.

 

[charlestondxman]

The Ruby Tuesday in our area (James Island) has had satellite television forever. They've had it for at least a decade, maybe more.

They've had it for so long that they used to pick up the Atlanta locals back before Charleston locals were added. I remember watching coverage of Hurricane Ivan from WSB there. I also remember watching the Braves there from Fox 5.

 

[spunker88]

But a lot of those places get payment. I worked a temp job in a gym and the gym was paid by a local TV stations to keep the channel on at the gym.

This is why you only had three channels at the gym, despite all the TVs. Sometimes the same station was on three TVs right in a row.

I imagine it works the same with other places.

Did they just put up an antenna on the roof and pick up the local channels that way. This way there would be no cable or satellite subscription needed.