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Originally Posted by ken0042
It's not the American broadcasters who are at fault here- they can sell their content to whoever they want.
(I'm going to use CTV, Global and NBC as examples below- but it isn't just these companies.)
It's just that in the 80s we were buying it directly from the NBC in the form of paying for cable. Then CTV stepped in and bought it from NBC, and we were forced to watch the CTV feed of the channel. Next Global comes along and starts bidding with CTV for programming; and NBC sells to the highest bidder. (And who wouldn't sell to the highest bidder.)
Now CTV and Global are trying to tell me that they bid more than what they could recover in advertizing costs, so they would like me to cover the shortfall. So the people who were against this who process and liked things the way they were before are being asked to pay for the "service" that they never wanted to begin with.
Imagine a company approaches the Flames and offers to buy every seat in the Dome and all of the TV rights; offerring more than the Flames get now. Flames agree, but now the cheapest seat in the Dome is $50 instead of $40, and every game is a $25 PPV game. Myself as a fan- I was fine with the way it was before; but have to pay a service to a middle man that I never wanted in the first place.
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CTV and Global own the content, should really be up to them if they make their money from advertisers, or programming fees. I don't know why you'd want a government agency to step in and tell them how they can run their business. It is the exact same situation here with affiliates wanting to charge retransmitters for what they used to offer for free.