

It hopes cost savings will find their way into prices



However, he does see potential savings in other forms. 








Source: Reuters

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By Motoman on 6/25/2014 3:15:30 PM , Rating: 2

That is the largest pile of BS I have ever seen.

First of all, there ALREADY is no "market pressure" in the cable TV market. You all have MONOPOLIES as it is. This is a key reason why the paid TV industry is so wildly anti-consumer - we're all so f$cking stupid that we give the cable companies regional monopolies. Thereby guaranteeing that we all get f%cked as hard as possible.

And in what universe does merging very few companies into even fewer companies *increase* competition and/or market pressure? Oh right...none.

The whole paid TV industry is a horrible anti-capitalist prank. No free market, no competition, no consumer choice, etc. etc. etc.

You want a *real* market, do this:

1. Immediately eliminate all existing monopolies/duopolies/whatever. And make it illegal to provide any kind of alignment at all between municipalities and paid TV providers.

2. Claim all physical infrastructure as public property, and manage/regulate it the same way that powerlines and telephone lines are. There should be no difference between those industries and the paid TV industry in this manner. Anyone that wants to start up a new paid TV service can get access to said infrastructure in the same manner as a new phone provider could. Make it the same.

3. Require all paid TV services to include all OTA programming they'd normally get in their area as part and parcel of any paid TV service package.

4. Require all paid TV services to offer all channels on an a la carte pricing model. Offer bundles too if you want, but regulate the a la carte pricing to be actually reflective of cost-to-serve so that they can't offer a 100-channel package (with 2 useful channels) for $40 and then offer just ESPN on it's own at $35.

Probably a good start. Give me a call when we implement that. Otherwise, STFU with your horrifically retard3d comments about "market pressures."

RE: please


