Posted on 01/21/2023 1:20:06 AM PST by E.G.C.
Those kind I DO NOT WANT to pay their salary. That is what Retransmission Consent does, it pays for the salaries of these lowlifes on TV.
This is why I cut the cable in the first place.
It does.
You ARE a product. The entire business model of the communication industr, magazines, newspapers, radio, TV, and the internet, literally for over 100 years has been selling audience to advertisers. You ARE a product. Period.
If you ain’t giving them money, then somebody is giving them money to have access to you. Product.
You’re right. It does. This is why we’re in the mess we’re in today.
This is one of the reasons that the cable companies WANT to go from “product providers” to the conduit (just internet providers.)
The customer service infrastructure is expensive and the margins suck. Building a plant that provides high speed internet is simple and clean. Let the other guys (Hulu, YouTube, Netflix, etc) deal with the screwy billing, the complaints of content, and all of the other overhead.
Advertisements are a different thing because it's what pays the salaries for the radio hosts and the engineers and also pay the bills for the radio and TV stations.
It DOES NOT hurt to stream your programming on the Internet. You can include ads with it. It will make money for you just the same. If you stream your newscasts on your website with ads it will make money just as if you're doing so on your air.
What these sorry bastards (Nexstar suits) are doing here is denying underserved access to essential news and weather information by ending their live newscast streams. I don't give a flying leap what you or anyone says, IT'S DUMB, IT'S STUPID AND IT'S IDIOTIC AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO SCREAM AND SHOUT IT ALL THE WAY AROUND THE WORLD
And, if you don't like well, that's your problem, NOT MINE!!!!!!!
WHAT PERRY SOOK DID HERE IS DUMB, STUPID AND IDIOTIC AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO STOP ME FROM SAYING IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!!!!
And MARK MY WORDS, THIS STUPIDITY IS GOING TO BE WHAT KILLS NEXSTAR MEDIA!!!!!!
Yeah, the cable business sucks. Having to buy channels, usually in packages, which force you to make tiers, that actual paying customers hate, and then those networks constantly raise their rates, which the customers hate, and everybody thinks they put the shows on, and all the equipment you need to maintain. Yeah, crappy business to be in. Nothing but headaches.
It does make it right, because it’s their call to make. And they aren’t preventing you from getting information, they’re just not PROVIDING the information through one particular method. You have many many ways to get that information from others.
Advertisements are their source of revenue. Advertisers are the customers. Advertisers are paying for access to the product: viewers. YOU.
It depends on the math. If a cable provider (one of their customers) is willing to pay more for them to not put some content on the website (which actually does cost the company money) then it could be worth it to not put that content on the website. And the revenue stream for web stuff is harder, web advertisers pay less, and demand more data, which costs you money to put together. And internet savvy people are so good at avoiding ads.
What they’re doing is math, and making decisions that best serve the company. If the network went out of business you wouldn’t get any of that information either, from any method.
I don’t care if you want to act like an impudent child throwing temper tantrums and screaming into the air. I’m simply pointing out that you’re accomplishing nothing. You’re not making Nextstar change their mind. You’re not changing the market conditions to give them a good reason to change. You’re just being a petulant child shouting at people for pointing out the reality of the business situation to you.
What Perry Sook did here was a sound business decision. And the fact that all you’ve got is shouting proves it. And spiking your blood pressure like that pretty much guarantees Nextstar media will out live you.
I've pretty much spoken my peace about this. If Perry Sook wants to be a greedy piece of garbage, so be it. I wouldn't invite him to my house for supper if he asked for it.
Just because it's a sound business decision DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT!!!!! Sook is NOT a clean pure as the wind driven snow kind of guy and you know it. SOOK IS PND SCUM PLAIN AND SIMPLE!!!!!!!
And quite frankly I can do without people like this.
Your essay progressed into nothing but a rant.
This seals it.
Oh look more shouting.
You’ve way more than spoken your piece. You’ve run right off the rails and showed you don’t understand the facts, won’t acknowledge the logic, and flat out have no idea what the hell you’re talking about. But you’ll keep pounding the table insisting everybody but you is wrong.
But we’re not.
You are.
They have NO IDEA what a "fraidy hole" is.
My friend John the Okie used to tell us stories...
There are far more people who agree with me than disagree with me and anyone saying otherwise is an idiot.
Also look into Starlink.
https://www.openworldlearning.org/how-to-get-local-channels-with-starlink/
I can pick up Nexstar channels from all over the country for free using my Roku device. The Roku was an initial price of $40 to purchase and it works through my existing internet service.
Remember I said Nexstar was discontinuing their live streams of all of their TV station's newscasts on their websites and apps? well, apparently one company has found a way around it.
I'm watching Mike Morgan right now as I type this.
Hopefully this live stream won't be taken down. Thank you BNO News!!!!!!!
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