[Papa John]

...Channel, or at least they're trying to do so. The Weather Channel and its website are taking on DirecTV in a campaign the likes of which I have never seen. Here's a quote from http://www.weather.com/

"For over 30 years, The Weather Channel has been the most trusted resource for disseminating timely information to help prepare and protect families across the nation against weather-related emergencies. But now DIRECTV is threatening to remove this critical life-saving community resource from 20 million households."

Why do I bring this up? I'm asking the media/media studies folks on this board whether or not this battle could have any effect whatsoever on the up-to-now fruitless Pac-12 negotiations with DirecTV.

To put it another way: For whom should we cheer?

[Papa John]

...Channel, or at least they're trying to do so. The Weather Channel and its website are taking on DirecTV in a campaign the likes of which I have never seen. Here's a quote from http://www.weather.com/

"For over 30 years, The Weather Channel has been the most trusted resource for disseminating timely information to help prepare and protect families across the nation against weather-related emergencies. But now DIRECTV is threatening to remove this critical life-saving community resource from 20 million households."

Why do I bring this up? I'm asking the media/media studies folks on this board whether or not this battle could have any effect whatsoever on the up-to-now fruitless Pac-12 negotiations with DirecTV.

To put it another way: For whom should we cheer?

[Papa John]

...Channel, or at least they're trying to do so. The Weather Channel and its website are taking on DirecTV in a campaign the likes of which I have never seen. Here's a quote from http://www.weather.com/

"For over 30 years, The Weather Channel has been the most trusted resource for disseminating timely information to help prepare and protect families across the nation against weather-related emergencies. But now DIRECTV is threatening to remove this critical life-saving community resource from 20 million households."

Why do I bring this up? I'm asking the media/media studies folks on this board whether or not this battle could have any effect whatsoever on the up-to-now fruitless Pac-12 negotiations with DirecTV.

To put it another way: For whom should we cheer?

[Papa John]

...Channel, or at least they're trying to do so. The Weather Channel and its website are taking on DirecTV in a campaign the likes of which I have never seen. Here's a quote from http://www.weather.com/

"For over 30 years, The Weather Channel has been the most trusted resource for disseminating timely information to help prepare and protect families across the nation against weather-related emergencies. But now DIRECTV is threatening to remove this critical life-saving community resource from 20 million households."

Why do I bring this up? I'm asking the media/media studies folks on this board whether or not this battle could have any effect whatsoever on the up-to-now fruitless Pac-12 negotiations with DirecTV.

To put it another way: For whom should we cheer?

[dabigv13]

Most likely cutting my cable at the end of the end of the month, now that college football is over. Anybody here just have it for the season and cut it in the offseason?

[dabigv13]

Most likely cutting my cable at the end of the end of the month, now that college football is over. Anybody here just have it for the season and cut it in the offseason?

[dabigv13]

Most likely cutting my cable at the end of the end of the month, now that college football is over. Anybody here just have it for the season and cut it in the offseason?

[dabigv13]

Most likely cutting my cable at the end of the end of the month, now that college football is over. Anybody here just have it for the season and cut it in the offseason?

[CowboyIndian]

Local stations here (Redding, CA) just settled a one-month-plus kerfuffle with DISH Network centered on carriage compensation. FOX was absent throughout the NFL PLayoffs and I found that FirstRow is a decent alternative for NFL games as well as college. Just DO NOT download their "viewing platform" or whatever they're trying to push.

[CowboyIndian]

Local stations here (Redding, CA) just settled a one-month-plus kerfuffle with DISH Network centered on carriage compensation. FOX was absent throughout the NFL PLayoffs and I found that FirstRow is a decent alternative for NFL games as well as college. Just DO NOT download their "viewing platform" or whatever they're trying to push.

[CowboyIndian]

Local stations here (Redding, CA) just settled a one-month-plus kerfuffle with DISH Network centered on carriage compensation. FOX was absent throughout the NFL PLayoffs and I found that FirstRow is a decent alternative for NFL games as well as college. Just DO NOT download their "viewing platform" or whatever they're trying to push.

[CowboyIndian]

Local stations here (Redding, CA) just settled a one-month-plus kerfuffle with DISH Network centered on carriage compensation. FOX was absent throughout the NFL PLayoffs and I found that FirstRow is a decent alternative for NFL games as well as college. Just DO NOT download their "viewing platform" or whatever they're trying to push.

[Ferris_Bueller]

.. good luck going commando after the top-secret TPP treaty becomes law.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

The TPP Will Rewrite Global Rules on Intellectual Property Enforcement

All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement. In the US, this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of US copyright law (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]) and restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector...

[Ferris_Bueller]

.. good luck going commando after the top-secret TPP treaty becomes law.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

The TPP Will Rewrite Global Rules on Intellectual Property Enforcement

All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement. In the US, this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of US copyright law (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]) and restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector...

[Ferris_Bueller]

.. good luck going commando after the top-secret TPP treaty becomes law.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

The TPP Will Rewrite Global Rules on Intellectual Property Enforcement

All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement. In the US, this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of US copyright law (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]) and restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector...

[Ferris_Bueller]

.. good luck going commando after the top-secret TPP treaty becomes law.

https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

The TPP Will Rewrite Global Rules on Intellectual Property Enforcement

All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement. In the US, this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of US copyright law (such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA]) and restrict the ability of Congress to engage in domestic law reform to meet the evolving IP needs of American citizens and the innovative technology sector...

[g1313]

Actually, lots of broadcasters and cable-channel owners have launched jihads against DirecTV during carriage negotiations. What's really uniquely hard-ball about this situation is that DirecTV has created its own weather station to replace Weather Channel.

Practically every cable executive I speak to is worried sick about the upward pressure on cable bills and the growing specter of cord-cutting by disgruntled customers. Cord-cutting used to be something of a scary campfire story, but in the past year it's become statistically measurable for the first time. I think the Weather Channel's fight with DirecTV is one more sign that the Pac-12 Network is not going to join the DirecTV lineup unless the conference blinks.

Not that I disagree in the long term, but the data I've seen this year shows a drop in cable subscriptions but it is mostly explained by a move to satellite or fiber, not pure cable-cutting as in only using Netflix and piracy. I'd be curious if you could refute this.

[g1313]

Actually, lots of broadcasters and cable-channel owners have launched jihads against DirecTV during carriage negotiations. What's really uniquely hard-ball about this situation is that DirecTV has created its own weather station to replace Weather Channel.

Practically every cable executive I speak to is worried sick about the upward pressure on cable bills and the growing specter of cord-cutting by disgruntled customers. Cord-cutting used to be something of a scary campfire story, but in the past year it's become statistically measurable for the first time. I think the Weather Channel's fight with DirecTV is one more sign that the Pac-12 Network is not going to join the DirecTV lineup unless the conference blinks.

Not that I disagree in the long term, but the data I've seen this year shows a drop in cable subscriptions but it is mostly explained by a move to satellite or fiber, not pure cable-cutting as in only using Netflix and piracy. I'd be curious if you could refute this.

[BostonCard]

It is a bit dated, so I wonder if it has changed the last couple years.

BC

[BostonCard]

It is a bit dated, so I wonder if it has changed the last couple years.

BC

[george]

Not that I disagree in the long term, but the data I've seen this year shows a drop in cable subscriptions but it is mostly explained by a move to satellite or fiber, not pure cable-cutting as in only using Netflix and piracy. I'd be curious if you could refute this.

Netflix isn't the only viable legal alternative, right?  Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and devices like Roku, Samsung smart tv, xbox1 are all making it easier and easier to watch content on the big screen.  I can't believe there'd be so many companies trying to get into that space if there wasn't demand on the part of consumers.

This feels a lot like the phenomenon of people abandoning their land-line telephones.  I still have mine because I'm paranoid about brain cancer from my cellphone, but I'm definitely in the minority.  9 out of every 10 calls I receive are telemarketing.  I haven't ever even tuned to 90% of the channels available to me.  The only things keeping my cable subscription active are college football and my DVR'd episodes of Elementary and Doctor Who.  I think I could get Elementary on Hulu and all but the most recent season of Doctor Who is available on Netflix. 

At the end of the day, if every Stanford game was on the pac-12 network and if the pac-12 network was available to online only users, I would abandon my cable subscription in a heartbeat. 

[george]

Not that I disagree in the long term, but the data I've seen this year shows a drop in cable subscriptions but it is mostly explained by a move to satellite or fiber, not pure cable-cutting as in only using Netflix and piracy. I'd be curious if you could refute this.

Netflix isn't the only viable legal alternative, right?  Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV and devices like Roku, Samsung smart tv, xbox1 are all making it easier and easier to watch content on the big screen.  I can't believe there'd be so many companies trying to get into that space if there wasn't demand on the part of consumers.

This feels a lot like the phenomenon of people abandoning their land-line telephones.  I still have mine because I'm paranoid about brain cancer from my cellphone, but I'm definitely in the minority.  9 out of every 10 calls I receive are telemarketing.  I haven't ever even tuned to 90% of the channels available to me.  The only things keeping my cable subscription active are college football and my DVR'd episodes of Elementary and Doctor Who.  I think I could get Elementary on Hulu and all but the most recent season of Doctor Who is available on Netflix. 

At the end of the day, if every Stanford game was on the pac-12 network and if the pac-12 network was available to online only users, I would abandon my cable subscription in a heartbeat.