The New Home Television Standard Is Cable TV

Can you remember a time without cable TV? There was a time when most televisions only received channels two, four, five, seven, nine, eleven, and thirteen. And then you could get the public broadcast station on some channel in the double digits. And if you had an antenna on the roof or on the set itself you had to move that around to get a good reception.

You would go around the neighborhood and of course see one on each house. How else could anyone get television reception? Well, you could have the rabbit ears antenna. But you had to constantly adjust those for good reception. Now it is the box that brings us the broadcast from the cable company’s tower.

Cable did not take off until companies and government figured out how to make money off it. They were able to convince government that tax revenue would be enormous. So the government started talks with the cable companies about bringing it to their cities and counties.

Then they went to various broadcast companies and showed them that they would pay them for their content. The consumer would of course pay the broadcaster in fees to the cable companies. The broadcasters need only create content that people would watch instead of or in addition to the network television they already watched.

And today the industry is a multi billion dollar money making giant. The government makes huge money by taxing the company which simply passes this bill on to you.

All the government has to do is allow the cable company to broadcast in their area. It is simply an issue of property rights as they control the air space or at least the zoning of it.

The broadcasters are paid by the commercial time they sell. And they are paid by the cable company for the content they deliver to the cable company. And of course the cable company charges you for the broadcast as part of your membership fee. Which by the way the broadcasters want a larger chunk of the cable company profits. So expect your bill to go up because the cable company is happy with their current profits now.

They would rather you have less money than them have less money. So where would we be without all of these people making a whole lot of money from us all? We would be back to free TV. And yes the networks put on some pretty worthless stuff these days. That is until they sell these programs for syndication.

The networks actually had some pretty good shows on back then. It seems now that TV programs are made so they can be sold for syndication to the cable TV broadcasters. It is not a question of quality but a question of syndication availability… And of course a question about how much money various groups can make off your TV watching.

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