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The Telecom Digest for August 5, 2013
Volume 32 : Issue 167 : "text" Format
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Re: Only Seven Percent of TV Households Rely on Over-the-Air Signals according to CEA Study (Telco Guy)
Re: Only Seven Percent of TV Households Rely on Over-the-Air Signals according to CEA Study (Neal McLain)

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Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2013 10:13:09 -0400
From: Telco Guy <Telco@Guy.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Only Seven Percent of TV Households Rely on Over-the-Air  Signals  according to CEA Study 
Message-ID: <51FE6175.311A1ED7@Guy.com>

Gordon Burditt wrote:
 
> Lots of other people with both a cable/satellite/internet source
> of TV programming and and antenna (not necessarily on the same TV)

There's your problem right there.

The cable or satellite digital box is the gateway to the primary
big-screen TV in the home.  They don't make those boxes with OTA antenna
input and incorporate OTA signals seemlessly into the channel lineup.

I don't think the average home would find it ergonomic to watch OTA on
the 19" TV in the kitchen when there are issues with the cable/satellite
feed going to the 47" TV in the den.

Of course you could connect both the OTA antenna and cable/satellite box
to the 47" tv in the den, but then you're dealing with the ergonomics of
switching the TV from one source to another, and then looking for the
missing TV remote control.




Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 19:13:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Neal McLain <nmclain.remove-this@and-this-too.annsgarden.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Only Seven Percent of TV Households Rely on Over-the-Air   Signals according to CEA Study 
Message-ID: <cebf877c-ed34-4c34-a8a3-c96f5e7a0446@googlegroups.com>

On Friday, August 2, 2013 9:34:17 AM UTC-5, news wrote:

> > And so it is that the "vast majority of Americans" subsidizes the
> > Seven Percent.  All in the name of Consumer Protection.
> > Neal McLain

> No, the conclusion should be that the vast majority of Americans like
> getting ripped off by the cable companies.....
>
> ET

Like it or don't like it, the fact remains that cable (and satellite) TV
companies that secondarily retransmit broadcast stations pursuant to
retransmission-consent agreements must pay fees to the broadcast stations
licensees.  These fees support the programming that all viewers receive (or at
least that's what the broadcasters claim).  To the extent that these fees
support OTA programming, they're subsidies.






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