I would have never guessed that HBO started that long ago.
Possibly.Extortion at its best.
More like being bent over a table and told to relax.......
Totally off topic but... back before they started programming 24/7 HBO used to play some music and a test card for several minutes before their first show of the night started. I recall around summer 1980 they were playing some tune featuring an electric violin which I believe was performed by Jean Luc Ponty. Anyone else remember this, or know what the song was?[/QUOTE]Here's a HBO clip from '77
Extortion at its best.
Possibly.
CBS insists other providers are dealing in a ( I am amused at how freely this word is tossed about) fair manner....
More like being bent over a table and told to relax.......
And how do we know CBS is taking the hardline and not willing to negotiate? Is it not possible Dish is being the stubborn one? Or they're both being stubborn.No...more like having your ankles pinned behind your ears.
How common was cable TV throughout the US ? I don't remember it where I grew up until the mid to late 70s.
WHT was big in NYC..it was HBO like on a UHF channelI would have never guessed that HBO started that long ago.
Sounds like if OTA reception was "easy", no one built cable systems in the area (?).
I lived in Minot north Dakota in the early 70's..we got 5 or 6 channels.on cable .Minot only had 2 channels at that time..they brought in Fargo channels and a couple Canadian channelsI went to work for a small catv system in 1990. We had 30 something channels. Hbo was just 1 channel also.
We were in the process during that time going 2 way. Mainly for ppv which was a big deal back then. Then over the next few years started installing fiber to cut down on the number of amps that were cascaded. Before fiber 1 amp failure could shut down 40,000 people.
Back then I used to feel we were cutting edge......lol. My oh how things have changed.
It isn't about who is taking the hardline, it's about conglomerate ownership and holding hostage completely unrelated channels relative to the dispute. AFAIK, this is about O&O CBS locals, not Showtime which is supposedly an ala carte offering. Is Showtime negotiating for a higher ala carte fee? If not, then it shouldn't be part of the dispute.And how do we know CBS is taking the hardline and not willing to negotiate? Is it not possible Dish is being the stubborn one? Or they're both being stubborn.
Showtime shouldn't be part of the deal at all for the reasons you propose, but it is leverage or at least CBS hopes so. It shouldn't be part of the negotiations at all as prices for it have raised independently over the years, or at least I think so.It isn't about who is taking the hardline, it's about conglomerate ownership and holding hostage completely unrelated channels relative to the dispute. AFAIK, this is about O&O CBS locals, not Showtime which is supposedly an ala carte offering. Is Showtime negotiating for a higher ala carte fee? If not, then it shouldn't be part of the dispute.
EveryoneWill Showtime go away for everyone or just the markets that are losing CBS?
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