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To: ERM who wrote (2946)10/25/1998 11:22:00 AM
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Turner is not an MSO. TBS provides content to cable operators. Turner is a super independent maverick which doesn't follow the standard mold of tv broadcasters. Ted had stated that the motivation wasn't so much an issue of profit drag as it was an issue of tyranny, the tyranny of external arbitrary decisions decided elsewhere for other reasons being imposed where it did not apply. Turner's lawyers did not argue along effective lines. If they had made the kind of argument MSFT is making, they might have won. They aren't the first tv station to directly resist imposition, but over the last 20 years resistance has dwindled. An MSO with 200 channels isn't going to resist what broadcasters have accepted as dogma. It hasn't made economic sense for them to do so. Things are changing. Now, the MSOs themselves are seeing more and more that it will be in their interest to be free to choose what they carry including whether to provide access to AOL.
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