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To: JSM_Liberty
on Newsmax’s insistence on its demands for “significant fees” from DirecTV

The entire cable/satellite business model baffles me. If you own a TV channel, you make money by selling commercials. Why does the cable company have to pay you to carry your signal on which you sell commercials? It defies just about every other business model of distribution, with the exception of franchises. But TV channels are not franchises. The cable companies have the franchise monopolies granted by congress, not the networks.

And people wonder why cable TV is so darn expensive? It's because they are paying it out to the companies that are showing you commercials. And the cable companies also put their own commercials on in the unsold air time and at regular intervals.

The business model is screwed up, and that is imo one of the reasons why people are cutting the cords. Other business models are more consumer friendly. Not to mention, the technology is antiquated. My cable company gives me an internet signal from which I can stream from dozens of streamers like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, you name it. But the cable companies insist I have their stupid box, can only watch what they choose to air when they choose to air it etc. But it's the same pipe feeding all of it. Why are there channels at all? The WWW has infinite channels. Why does cable limit what I can watch and when?

10 posted on 01/26/2023 2:25:17 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

“cable” is dying slowly, I think the reason it isn’t dying faster is inertia. A lot of folks seem reluctant to buy into the streaming approach. But fundamentally you’re correct.


15 posted on 01/26/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: monkeyshine
> And people wonder why cable TV is so darn expensive? It's because they are paying it out to the companies that are showing you commercials. And the cable companies also put their own commercials on in the unsold air time and at regular intervals. The business model is screwed up, and that is imo one of the reasons why people are cutting the cords. Other business models are more consumer friendly.

You obviously don't understand how modern business works, its not about making money anymore, its all about imposing a leftist lifestyle on everyone.

Streaming is just a way to get the millennials even more indoctrinated then they already are, until it gets too expensive ...

21 posted on 01/26/2023 3:36:18 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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