Dish Issues, Comcast/TWC Questions, Cablevision’s Freewheeling, HLN What? – Paul S. Maxwell

My book amp8220The Revolutionary Evolution of the Mediaamp8221 continues This is a work in progress Read the latest chapter here Comment The Federal Confusion Commission is really going to do it on the 26th of this month amp8230 vote 3 to 2 for Title amp8220Too Liteamp8221 amp8230 or amp8220Too Little Too Lateamp8221 Or horrors as Charteramp8217s Tom Rutledge noted among the 332 pages of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeleramp8217s version of Title II nothing will really change amp8230 for now At least he promises to ignore rate regulation which made the markets happy as cable stocks climbed a bit and just about everything else except amp8230 sort of The Devil is always in the details and despite Wheeleramp8217s vow to amp8220forebearamp8221 whatever this doesnamp8217t mean Wheeleramp8217s successor shall feel the same way or have to follow that precedent It leaves that ability to meddle on the books amp8230 that is scary So did that redefinition of broadband doom the ComcastTime Warner Cable merger Unlike lots of other folk Iamp8217m not so certain I think the real questions revolve around any conditions there will be many and some onerous imposed by eitheror the FCC and the DoJIn other happenings of noteIs a company a small company if Dish owns 85 of it Well we know Dish management and we know they know how to skirt close to the edge And as Ergen frenemy Dr John Malone often notes show me the rules and Iamp8217ll follow them Someone at some time wrote and someone else approved some sloppy rules Will be interesting to see if the FCC can find a way to rewrite them and make sure the United States treasury gets the spirit of the law and some 3b But then what about those 15 holders Did they and Dish just lose Or will Dish pay up Stay tunedWhat was once Headline News is going to show movies The entertaining anchor on NBC has taken a leave of absence because he sort of kind of over did entertaining by misremembering to separate narrative from reality Never before has it been so clear that in order to make money in news on television cable or broadcast thereamp8217s only one way pander to a select audience amp8230 primarily with blondesCablevisionamp8217s Freewheel is great amp8230 voice over WiFi and no cell charges So too is TMobileamp8217s cell WiFi ability on the iPhone 6 More should follow suit if only to lessen congestion on many cellular towersIts always interesting to run across things like startups created by old friends whoamp8217ve already had some success Sometimes the new things are the same things like Iamp8217ve done amp8230 just making some changes that change the time or space of accessing content via new conduits One old friend Eric Frankel toiled at Warner Brothers for a long while and did some other stuff too Now though he noticed a not so small problem that online sales outlets cope with all of the time A consumer clicks on something and puts it in a cart amp8230 and goes somewhere else did that this morning myself Eric with a number of other friends and investors has with AdGreetz come up with a powerfullooking solution a truly very individualized and personalized message that can amp8211 maybe amp8211 help change that behavior Heamp8217s already demonstrated how any message can be personalized and heamp8217s already working with dozens of major companies Take a look I was impressed Not that that means anythingIn an almost 50year career writing and reporting on media Paul S Maxwell started andor ran some 45plus publications ranging from CATV Newsweekly to Colorado Magazine to CableVision to Multichannel News to CableFAX and The BRIDGE Suite of daily newsletters and research publications In between publishing stints Maxwell served as an advisor andor consultant to a number of major media companies and media startups including running a unit of MCI and managing a partnership of TCI and McGrawHillSend any and all criticisms suggestions rants threats corrections etc to him at cablemaxmaccom He has a new Web site coming soonCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates at MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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