Get Rid of Fox and MSNBC

[The_Dude 1,142]

Interesting speech. At around 4:30, it gets a bit more interesting at around the 4 minute mark

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Lets just get rid of the Freedom of Speech. Easier that way. After all, the founding fathers could not have possibly known about TV when they wrote the constitution and therfore it does not apply to TV or Radio ...or the internet.

I have no problem with millions of people watching FOX as long as you have no problem with 3 people watching MSNBC.

[The_Dude 1,142]

Lets just get rid of the Freedom of Speech. Easier that way. After all, the founding fathers could not have possibly known about TV when they wrote the constitution and therfore it does not apply to TV or Radio ...or the internet.

I have no problem with millions of people watching FOX as long as you have no problem with 3 people watching MSNBC.

Gary, did you bother to even watch the video? I suspect not.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Gary, did you bother to even watch the video? I suspect not.

It would change my opinion? The first amendment is inviolate. Discussion about it is a waste of time.

No I rarely bother to watch videos nor do I have TV. If you have something to say...say it.

[The_Dude 1,142]

It would change my opinion? The first amendment is inviolate. Discussion about it is a waste of time.

No I rarely bother to watch videos nor do I have TV. If you have something to say...say it.

Either watch the video and then compose a competent response, or piss off. I don't need your brand of ignorance in this thread.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

I think Sen. Rockefeller is missing the mark, which is that the future delivery of television programming will be via the internet, even though he alluded to the fact that consumers are cutting the cord of their cable subscriptions in record numbers and moving to the internet. Eventually, all television programming will go by way of the internet, which will expand consumer's options even more. The internet is the great equalizer because there aren't the kinds of logistical limitations of traditional television networks, with the internet. The most current TV's being sold now have built in internet access, so it's becoming more accessible than ever before. Network television, IMO, is fast becoming a dinosaur that has outlived its usefulness.

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The internet is the great equalizer...

There is a battle being waged as we speak to allow ISPs to give preference to traffic from certain sites and in this battle, the side of freedom is losing.

[The_Dude 1,142]

There is a battle being waged as we speak to allow ISPs to give preference to traffic from certain sites and in this battle, the side of freedom is losing.

What is scary is the lack of outcry about the slow erosion of net neutrality.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

So shutting down MSNBC and Fox news and replacing it with 'quality' news approved by the likes of Rockefeller will restore faith in our government? You have got to be ####### kidding me.

I don't care for MSNBC but shutting it down has never crossed my mind. My TV still has controls for power and channel selection.

[웃 910]

I think Sen. Rockefeller is missing the mark, which is that the future delivery of television programming will be via the internet, even though he alluded to the fact that consumers are cutting the cord of their cable subscriptions in record numbers and moving to the internet. Eventually, all television programming will go by way of the internet, which will expand consumer's options even more. The internet is the great equalizer because there aren't the kinds of logistical limitations of traditional television networks, with the internet. The most current TV's being sold now have built in internet access, so it's becoming more accessible than ever before. Network television, IMO, is fast becoming a dinosaur that has outlived its usefulness.

Comcast has a market cap of almost 60 billion, Time Warner Cable Inc. 22 billion, Dish Network 8 billion....

The cable providers make millions, employee hundreds of thousands of US citizens (Comcast alone employees 107,000 people nationwide: see bottom of this link).

TV and advertising go hand in hand. There is a reason 80% of 2011s Superbowl commercials were already filled in January 2010 at a price tag between $2.8 and $3 million per 30 second spot.

Your prediction is wrong just as was your prediction that the iPad would revolutionize the computer world (it is just a large iPhone).

Edited November 20, 2010 by Lord Infamous

[JohnSmith2007 353]

What Mr Rockefeller fails to realize is this. The FCC does not regulate cable tv.

[Pooky 3,847]

It just seemed appropriate

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Comcast has a market cap of almost 60 billion, Time Warner Cable Inc. 22 billion, Dish Network 8 billion....

The cable providers make millions, employee hundreds of thousands of US citizens (Comcast alone employees 107,000 people nationwide: see bottom of this link).

TV and advertising go hand in hand. There is a reason 80% of 2011s Superbowl commercials were already filled in January 2010 at a price tag between $2.8 and $3 million per 30 second spot.

Your prediction is wrong just as was your prediction that the iPad would revolutionize the computer world (it is just a large iPhone).

Those first three didn't exist or weren't involved with network television beyond the last couple of decades and they will eventually become obsolete. Such is the life cycle of these types of markets. Look at Blockbuster - they were HUGE and where are they now? People aren't renting videos in the numbers that they were before and more and more are turning to Netflix. An internet subscription service like Netflix, will eventually overtake the conventional cable and TV networks. The ones that are savvy enough are already preparing for that transition. Eventually, most TV viewers will be watching via the internet. It's inevitable. If you are betting man, you are betting on the wrong horse if you think things will remain as they are over the next decade.

[웃 910]

Eventually, most TV viewers will be watching via the internet. It's inevitable. If you are betting man, you are betting on the wrong horse if you think things will remain as they are over the next decade.

3D is the next gamechanger. Have u gone to best buy recently and seen the displays. It is mind blowing.

Cable is not free and all tv, every channel would disappear if people stole it off the Internet.

$50 billion companies don't just disappear.

[웃 910]

If you want to say TVs will stream from the Internet that is fine, but don't think your cable bill will drop by a noticeable amount.

People have been able to stream off the Internet radio and tv shows for years, doesn't mean they throw their tvs and radios away.

It is a marketing ploy to expand their audience from local to worldwide.