Fox News Threatens FtA Suicide!

[SiempreTuna]

.. world crosses fingers and offers the loan of a gun arty:

A News Corp president threatened to throw his toys from the pram and take Fox behind a pay-to-view wall after losing an appeal in a case against the Aereo streaming service (never heard of it, but it's now officially my favourite streaming service EVER).

Strange how one person's idea of a threat is another person's idea of a promise ..

Go Aereo! :adore:

 

[AntimonyER]

Aaaand.... Moved to PCA.

 

[SiempreTuna]

Aaaand.... Moved to PCA.

But .. why

This couldn't possibly get politicial!

 

[Gmash]

This is actually about the Fox broadcast network, not the Fox News cable network. I don't really see why they have such a problem with people watching free broadcast tv over the internet.

 

[Speed Daemon]

Personally I don't care which part of Rupert Murdoch's evil empire wants to commit suicide, I'm all for it on general principle!

 

[Gmash]

As long as Family Guy survives somehow...lol

 

[Speed Daemon]

As long as Family Guy survives somehow...lol

Hey, one day the chicken will get Peter for good. It's the cycle of life...

 

[Speed Daemon]

I just saw the story on NBC Evening News, and in my expert technical opinion, the excuse that supposedly makes Aereo legal, a "tiny antenna" with "one antenna per viewer" is a bunch of hooey.

First of all, it's a physical impossibility to get a reliable OTA signal on their alleged "unbelievably small antenna". That part is truly unbelievable! There's also the small matter that there simply isn't any rule shat says it's OK if there's an antenna for every viewer. I don't know where Aereo got that nutty idea, but it's not going to fool the lawyers. And all that prior art from MATV and CATV systems is enough to bury them.

I'm certainly not on NewsCorp's side, but can't ignore the fact that Aereo seems to be based on the ravings of a lunatic.

On the plus side, I think that making FOX PPV is also pretty looney. A quick glance at the rate cards for advertising OTA vs. cable is a pretty good indicator that they'd be giving up their biggest income source if their OTA operations went dark. And since the largest audience that would want to watch FOX on a tablet is also the same group that has been very resourceful in getting their content for free, I doubt that they could turn a profit doing PPV-only.

The real story here is that TV producers are going to be less and less tied to any particular TV network, and are likely to ink more simulcast deals that allow companies like Hulu and Netflix to offer Internet versions of the same show. We're already seeing hit shows being broadcast solely over the Internet. What Murdoch doesn't seem to understand is that we don't need TV networks to be the middleman any more.