They are a private company and can do whatever they want... that being said, if they drop fox I will drop them.
Geez, you’d think that a guy who works with Bawney Fwank all the time wouldn’t be so afraid of balls flying at his nose...
I am irritated that Fox moved up the Dallas game to 4:15 meaning I will miss it Washington plays at San Diego at 4:15.
First of all, John Kerry, this is none of your damn business..
Secondly, does this only affect Time Warner standard cable or both digital and standard cable(We have digital in the den so thats why Im asking)
Damn decisions decisions, Directv or Dish
Thank god for REAL hero’s like John F Kerry.
Doing the jobs others in congress won’t touch.
Stay strong senator and hope there are no more nightmares of Christmas in Cambodia.
This is what he was really saying. The democrats want to control every part of your life.
I’d like to see Fox leave them.
Why support a liberal corporation that seeks your undoing?
John Kerry images on the Net are just way too hilarious...
Did he send a threatening letter to Time-Warner?
Watching football in America is a RIGHT, dang nabbit!.... march in the streets for social justice! There IS no security in America unless we are secure in our knowledge that the NFL will be on television. All you NFL deniers should be ashamed!!! Not insuring that every American has equal access to football is just plain un-American!!! You free enterprise corporate cable lovers can go STRAIGHT TO HELL!!!! /sarc (of course) ;-)
The government controls banks, 2 auto makers and is working on the healthcare industry. Why not control TV too?
Is Kerry the Senator from France, or Vietnam? I keep forgetting.
Go to hell, JOhn KERry
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Friggin' amazing how the government can step in and fix ANY problem, isn't it?
Anybody remember where we put that old Constitution thing?
Is Kerry still in DC or is he back "home" in Massachusetts?
-PJ
The local CBS affiliate in Topeka did this recently with Cox Cable. They had an interesting argument - the cable company participates in no way in the cost and production of programming (or fees to the NCAA etc), so why should they be allowed to air it for free, and profit from it.
The interesting counter-argument a local talk radio guy made was: what about the Drudge Report. They don’t produce anything that they link to...yet they profit from it. What’s the difference?
The question also came up: “Isn’t CBS worried about losing viewership, if their spot on the cable dial goes dark?” Surprisingly, the station manager said that the bulk of their viewership (something like 70%) watched on an antenna, which really surprised me.
Ultimately, the local affiliate won (were using final 4 tournament for leverage). They got a per subscriber fee, which Cox passed directly onto their customers....
Which opens up a whole new argument over a la cart programming...
Alot to ponder. I think Fox should be able to charge for their product though, so I’m on their side...but if I had cable, I would probably cancel it as a result. WHAT THE HECK does John Kerry have to do with this...and why does he think his committee has ‘jurisdiction’?
