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Stakes Are High For Comcast Hearing

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5 comments Friday, February 22, 2008

4 Comments

By Lowongan Kerja 2009 (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/10/2008 - 22:24

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By Dave (WPN reader) - Sun, 02/24/2008 - 17:47

I have been involved in selling and installing satellite systems for over 10 years now. To keep informed of what apartment owners could do to regulate the installation of dishes on their property I read a lot of the FCC regulations.

The best thing I discovered was the cable and satellite providers are required to remove programing a customer doesn't want at the customers request and reduce the amount billed to the customer acordingly. The customer can also request different channels to replace the ones they don't want.

Heres the problem. If a customer wants CNN but not Headlines News it can't be done. The provider can't cut just part of the program package, they have to cut the entire CNN, ESPN, Encore, etc. package from the customers account.

Comcast's basic cable package is mostly shop at home channels.

Personally, I don"t watch any of the shop at home channels the providers put in their basic subscription packages.

I think they are a waste of valuable capacity the cable companies could use to provide better services to their internet customers.

By Akbar Mytie (WPN reader) - Sat, 02/23/2008 - 11:05

no, wait...

JLM> "The FCC doesn't force cable companies into a la cart programming (which may actually free up capacity also), thereby guaranteeing steady revenues from the channels nobody watches but cable is paid extra to include in packages."

I'm not going to claim total expertise in matters cable, however it is my experience that cable is not paid to carry program services (except for certain religious programming that would not stand a chance if it didn't pay its own way). In fact, the reverse is true: cable pays program providers for practically everything it offers its subscribers.

The "channels nobody watches" item therefore is different: In order to provide CNN to its subscribers, cable used to be forced to carry Headline News. Other providers have similar arrangements.

But also in the matter of "channels nobody watches," may I submit that this is just not true. The average Cable system has 100 analog channels. The average cable subscriber watches no more that 15 channels on a regular basis. But consumer tastes run all over the map so every channel has some audience, big or small. The only channel nobody watches is the channel that's vacant.

Your mileage may vary, close cover before striking.