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Why would CBS care about how people access their junk? They get paid by advertisers who care about eyeballs. More eyeballs, more money for CBS. Unless I'm mista
by gdilla 13y ago
Why would CBS care about how people access their junk? They get paid by advertisers who care about eyeballs. More eyeballs, more money for CBS. Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages.
- oddevan 13y agoThey do pay pretty big bucks; both CBS and the local affiliate groups tend to have pretty long drawn-out conflicts over those fees. Yet their signal is still broadcast for free. Yeah, I don't get it either. :/
- rm999 13y ago> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages Yep, in the form of "retransmission fees" paid by the cable companies. CBS currently makes about 250M dollars a year from these fees, and they project that'll be up to 2B by 2020: http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmission-revenue-estimate-and-says-aereos-no-threat/ http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmiss... Of course that projection may be inflated for their own selfish reasons.
- gdilla 13y agowow, talk about easy money.