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Watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast (who owns NBC) will be interesting.

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast (who owns NBC) will be interesting. People having been watching CBS over lines owned by Comcast most of the nearly half century Comcast has existed, including the period where it has owned NBCUniversal (it has been, after all, a CATV company a lot longer than its been an ISP.)
  • jpmattia 12y ago
    And now Comcast will be carrying that content with no extra charge. Maybe that will just work out that Comcast lets them send full video, but I suspect there will be nflx-like carriage arrangements by the time it's done.
  • exelius 12y ago
    Actually, Comcast would love to be able to ditch the local networks. They currently have to pay local station owners for distribution rights in the form of retransmission agreements. This way, CBS will be paying for a commercial CDN because, well, that's what you have to do when you distribute video over the Internet if you want decent performance (and there are lots of business and technical reasons for this). Most commercial CDNs have had interconnect agreements with all the large ISPs for over a decade.