[LINK] Murchoch's NBN (was Re: Turnbull's NBN)

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:

> Pay TV is dying, it never really
> worked in this country anyway as Free-To-Air TV was mostly good enough,
> but it's dying even in America where it was hugely successful - nearly
> universal subscription almost on the level of "if you could afford it,
> you had it" .


Dead in the US? I think not...

In 2012, the number of US households with Pay TV *increased* 46,000.  Yes,
that's a small increase, and potentially smaller than increase in the total
number of houses in the US, but it's still an increase!  Those numbers also
include a significant reduction in subscribers from places still recovering
from Hurricane Sandy as at the end of the year, so the true increase
(without Sandy) was likely higher than 46,000.

Yes, there is certainly an increase in people moving away from pay TV, but
with over 100 million US households paying for TV, calling it "dying"
couldn't be further from the truth.  At most, it's got the sniffles...

  Scott