Local TV affIliates facing a new technology end?

[benwolf]

Thousands of tiny antennas to avoid lawsuits. Fascinating idea from Barry Diller:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.c...-stations-in-new-york/?scp=1&sq=Diller&st=cse

 

[arnoldevns]

This will be shut down by the courts. Bottom line is that this outfit is making money on the copyrighted material of the broadcasters. Without some kind of agreement with those broadcasters to do that (and share revenue) the courts will step in to stop it.

 

[spencerkarter85]

You can blame John Danforth (when he was in Congress) for bringing that "Retransmission-Consent" language to the 1992 Cable Act. IMHO, I think the NAB should be banned from lobbying in Congress. And Judge Buchwald is wicked after she put IVI.tv into injunction. Remember when Dish Network (DirecTV's rivals) were put into injunction for delivering NYC/LA feeds of the four networks to ineligible customers because they violated SHVERA in 2006? As a result, they had to shut it down, and third party deliver distant feeds. And recently Dish had their injunction lifted in one case, served the missing network into a short market on satellite. We lived in the 21st world with 20th century regulations. That needs to change. And I would say that's impossible.

 

[KERCAlum]

You can blame John Danforth (when he was in Congress) for bringing that "Retransmission-Consent" language to the 1992 Cable Act. IMHO, I think the NAB should be banned from lobbying in Congress. And Judge Buchwald is wicked after she put IVI.tv into injunction. Remember when Dish Network (DirecTV's rivals) were put into injunction for delivering NYC/LA feeds of the four networks to ineligible customers because they violated SHVERA in 2006? As a result, they had to shut it down, and third party deliver distant feeds. And recently Dish had their injunction lifted in one case, served the missing network into a short market on satellite. We lived in the 21st world with 20th century regulations. That needs to change. And I would say that's impossible.

Not until people change.

 

[FreddyE1977]

You can blame John Danforth (when he was in Congress) for bringing that "Retransmission-Consent" language to the 1992 Cable Act. IMHO, I think the NAB should be banned from lobbying in Congress. And Judge Buchwald is wicked after she put IVI.tv into injunction. Remember when Dish Network (DirecTV's rivals) were put into injunction for delivering NYC/LA feeds of the four networks to ineligible customers because they violated SHVERA in 2006? As a result, they had to shut it down, and third party deliver distant feeds. And recently Dish had their injunction lifted in one case, served the missing network into a short market on satellite. We lived in the 21st world with 20th century regulations. That needs to change. And I would say that's impossible.

Lest we forget John McCain was a major (and a very corrupt) player in that whole deal.
And yet my party nominated him to be President of the United States.

This is sort of like how AFTRA and copyright lawyers strangled web broadcasting in its early days.
It took nearly a decade to recover with the work-arounds (many of which frankly do not work very well).

As people drop what was traditionally known as TV and live off their wireless devices, the major
networks will eventually be forced to join the revolution or die.

 

[arnoldevns]

No question, but the nets have a right to do that on their own terms - not have someone steal their signals and make money on them without compensation.