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“If Aereo’s model is ultimately upheld,” Stifel Nicolaus analysts Christopher King and David Kaut wrote in a recent note, it could force “the broadcast/content companies to seek Congressional relief.”
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Kind of related, the television networks -- in the person of News Corp. president Chase Carey -- threaten to lobby congress for more restrictive laws if the courts continue to rule against them.
I cannot understand this. Broadcast television gets revenue from ads which pay by audience. How is it bad for them to expand their audience via OTT? Clearly, the issue is control.