{"id":214,"date":"2013-04-10T14:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/?p=214"},"modified":"2023-12-01T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T19:04:09","slug":"news-corp-threatens-to-cancel-its-free-fox-tv-network-if-aereo-isnt-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backgroundpropaganda.com\/wp\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"News Corp threatens to cancel its free Fox TV network if Aereo isn\u2019t banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angered over Aereo\u2019s recent win in Appeals court<\/a>, News Corp is threatening to cancel its free Fox TV network and switch it completely to a subscription-based service. Many other networks are also frustrated with Aereo, which takes over-the-air broadcast signals with its thousands of little antennas and feeds them to its subscribers\u2019 computers, phones, and tablets. Many networks that have fought against Aereo include Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, Univision, and more.<\/p>\n

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Chase Carey, Chief Operating Officer of News Corp, stated, <\/p>\n

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Aereo is stealing our signal. We believe in our legal rights. We\u2019re going to pursue those legal rights fully and completely, and we believe we\u2019ll prevail. But we want to be clear. If we can\u2019t have our rights properly protected through legal and political avenues, we will pursue business solutions. One such business solution would be to take the network and turn it into a subscription service.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Carey also stated, <\/p>\n

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\u201cOne option could be converting the Fox broadcast network to a pay channel, which we would do in collaboration with both our content partners and affiliates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because Aereo<\/a> has individual antennas picking up the broadcast signals, the court ruled that Aereo wasn\u2019t retransmitting signals. It stated that Aereo was merely offering subscribers an option that they could already do with their own antennas. If the court did rule that Aereo was retransmitting the broadcast signals, it would most likely have to pay a fee to the TV networks.<\/p>\n

Retransmission fees add up to billions of dollars in total each year, and are usually paid by companies that want to redistribute the networks\u2019 programming to their subscribers. The court says that like Cablevision\u2019s web-based RS-DVR, Aereo isn\u2019t a video-on-demand service and isn\u2019t retransmitting signals. It is merely storing individual copies of TV shows and providing them to the user who had requested them.<\/p>\n

If Fox is converted to a subscription-based network, many popular TV shows, like American Idol, Glee, Family Guy, and X-Factor, will see a drastic hit in viewers. All of those shows are what made Fox so popular, so limiting the number of viewers who have access to them may backfire on Fox. Aereo charges a fee for its services. Fees range from $8-$12 monthly, and $80 for the entire year. We\u2019ll keep you posted on how this case turns out.<\/p>\n

[via<\/a> Fox News]<\/p>\n

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