“Within a year and a half, certainly by ’13, we’ll be in most major” markets, said CEO Barry Diller. TV broadcasters are worried about the venture for a couple of reasons. For starters, cable, satellite and telco video service providers currently pay over the air broadcasters for retransmitting their signals.
If Aereo can retransmit without paying a fee, the door is open for cable, satellite and telco video service providers to argue they also should be exempt from such carriage fees. That obviously would hurt broadcaster revenues in two ways, first by slicing the fees they currently are paid, and secondly by sharply reducing their advertising potential.
Whether Aereo survives all the broadcast industry lawsuits, or does not, over the air TV broadcasters will get into mobile video themselves.
The Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint venture consisting of 12 major broadcast groups that operate the Dyle mobile TV service, suggests 68 percent of respondents would watch more TV if they we
More than 50 percent of consumers would consider watching mobile TV on smartphones and tablets.
Whether the current "dongle" approach Dyle is using makes sense, long term, is arguably a key
question, though.
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