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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedTHE ANSWER MAN.(media companies' lawsuit against ReplayTV)(Brief Article)(Column)
Video Business, November, 2001 by Hettrick, Scott
The media companies' Iawsuit against ReplayTV is simply an effort to delay the inevitable. Item #1: The two satellite TV services in this country collectively reach fewer than 25% of all homes with cable and/or satellite, which is nearly 10 million fewer homes than have DVD players. News Corp.
not only controls most of the rest of the world's satellite services and many of the world's largest newspapers, the company's Fox unit also owns a huge chunk of the broadcast and cable TV business in the U.S. as well as one of the few film studios. Does anyone, including News Corp., politicians and regulators, really believe there would be more anti-competitive issues if EchoStar and DirecTV merge than if News Corp. gets control of one of the largest...
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