Another television network has joined the broadcaster backlash following last week's court decision upholding Internet TV company Aereo's right to stream broadcast TV without paying retransmission fees.

Like rival Fox TV, CBS, the parent company of CNET, is considering alternative ways to monetize its television content in the face of Aereo's service, including cutting off broadcast signals in favor of a subscription-only model, The New York Times reported today. The revelation comes a day after Chase Carey, chief operations officer of News Corp., indicated that Fox would change its business model to ensure it gets paid for TV content it produces.

"We need the dual revenue stream model of retransmission fees and advertising to sustain our business," Carey said yesterday at National Association of Broadcasters' annual trade show in Las Vegas. "We will pursue our rights fully both legally and politically to protect our rights. But if we can't get our rights protected, we will pursue business solutions to take our network and turn it into a subscription service."

Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited.

what happened to the phrase I hear on baseball telecasts all the time?



I assumed bars and other people who could profit by retransmission could not tap into the signal without paying for it. It that just a bunch of BS trying to scare off the little guy? Doesn't the NFL take a similar stance? I wonder why this simple line doesn't work for the networks as well. It seems so simple. You can't get something for free so pay the people who make it.

Originally Posted by: wpr 

Typically, a Bar is already paying a portion of that re-transmission fee with their Cable or Satellite cost. The bar isn't rebroadcasting it either.

The NFL did have issues with a church (and other venues) showing the Super Bowl to mass amounts of people. I think there was a limit on how many could view it without a charge or something.

The service that is pissing off CBS and FOX is I believe omitting commercials and that's why the networks are pissed off. Networks use regional commercials for certain demographics and when its rebroadcasted without their control, they lose that marketing control. Do you want to advertise your product of Viagra to a market that is dominated by teenagers?

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool