In article , Home Guy "Home"@Guy. com
wrote:

trader_4 wrote:

If you receive via cable, the cable company is paying a huge amount
to the broadcaster for the right to distribute what otherwise would
be free and you in turn are paying for it in your cable bill.

Isin't it true (or maybe it was in the past?) that cable-co's could take
any signal off the air and rebroadcast them across the local cable plant
without having to pay the networks or the station broadcasting the
signal - as long as they carried it exactly as it was broadcast - no
substitution of commercials?


Used to be that cable systems were subjected to Must Carry Laws meaning
just that because the locals were concerned about being shut out. Then
CATV got to be big biz and TV stations decided they wanted a cut and got
the Congress to change the law.
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