From Forbes: How worried are the owners of the major broadcast television
networks about Aereo, the Barry Diller-backed digital television service
they’ve been trying unsuccessfully to sue out of existence? Worried enough that
at least two of them are actively entertaining the possibility of pulling their
free over-the-air signals altogether.
That may sound like a doomsday scenario, but it’s happening,
says Garth Ancier, a former top-level executive at NBC, Fox and WB. A Reuters
story about the threats posed by Aereo and Dish Network’s ad-skipping Hopper
DVR to the broadcast business model quoted Ancier making the claim that two of
the Big Four networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — have for months been evaluating
whether they might be better off becoming, in effect, cable channels….
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