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This could start massive boycott of Fox and GOP mofoply.
Fox News and the GOP to Cord Cutters: Drop Dead
Are you a cord cutter who wants to watch tonight's GOP debate online? You're out of luck.
Regardless of whether your politics lean red or blue, we can all agree that tonight's GOP debate will be absolutely AMAZING!
Now, what usually happens in these party debates is that the candidate leading in the polls will attempt to appear as presidential as possible (i.e. stoic, dispassionate) while all the other candidates play a game of rattle the leader. But this time around, the leading candidate happens to be 100 percent impervious to all criticism and will dish it right back. Not only does Donald J. Trump refuse to shy away from confrontation, he relishes it.
Tonight, we will not watch a debate, we will witness an event. That is—if you have a cable subscription.
Yes, it's 2015, and you still have to pay a cable provider for the privilege of watching a live digital stream on the Internet. While tonight's debate will be available on Fox News Channel's website as well as its many app platforms, all digital live streams will require a cable subscription log-in. To put it another way: You will have to pay a middleman who may not even be in the middle.
A FNC representative told PCMag that clips from the debate will be "uploaded in real-time on the site" throughout the evening, and the full debate will be archived on the site the next day even without a subscription. How very 2010 of them.
So, cord cutters who had any hope of joining the live conversation surrounding the debate are kinda out of luck. And it's not just FNC sticking it to the growing number of consumers who refuse to take part in the cable industrial complex. CNN—which will host the next GOP debate—will only offer viewers a free 10-minute preview of its Sept. 16 debate via its website and iPad app before requiring a subscription log-in. However, we should note that CNN's broadcast is viewable online as part of Dish Networks' Sling TV service, which delivers cable subscription-free live broadcasts over the Internet.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489044,00.asp
Or maybe payback is already here:
Fox News and the GOP to Cord Cutters: Drop Dead
- By Evan Dashevsky
- August 6, 2015
Are you a cord cutter who wants to watch tonight's GOP debate online? You're out of luck.
Regardless of whether your politics lean red or blue, we can all agree that tonight's GOP debate will be absolutely AMAZING!
Now, what usually happens in these party debates is that the candidate leading in the polls will attempt to appear as presidential as possible (i.e. stoic, dispassionate) while all the other candidates play a game of rattle the leader. But this time around, the leading candidate happens to be 100 percent impervious to all criticism and will dish it right back. Not only does Donald J. Trump refuse to shy away from confrontation, he relishes it.
Tonight, we will not watch a debate, we will witness an event. That is—if you have a cable subscription.
Yes, it's 2015, and you still have to pay a cable provider for the privilege of watching a live digital stream on the Internet. While tonight's debate will be available on Fox News Channel's website as well as its many app platforms, all digital live streams will require a cable subscription log-in. To put it another way: You will have to pay a middleman who may not even be in the middle.
A FNC representative told PCMag that clips from the debate will be "uploaded in real-time on the site" throughout the evening, and the full debate will be archived on the site the next day even without a subscription. How very 2010 of them.
So, cord cutters who had any hope of joining the live conversation surrounding the debate are kinda out of luck. And it's not just FNC sticking it to the growing number of consumers who refuse to take part in the cable industrial complex. CNN—which will host the next GOP debate—will only offer viewers a free 10-minute preview of its Sept. 16 debate via its website and iPad app before requiring a subscription log-in. However, we should note that CNN's broadcast is viewable online as part of Dish Networks' Sling TV service, which delivers cable subscription-free live broadcasts over the Internet.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2489044,00.asp
Or maybe payback is already here:
- Cord-Cutting Contagion! Wall Street Bails on Big Media Stocks.
Re/code-Aug 5, 2015
Big media companies used to insist that cord-cutters — people dropping pay TV for Internet video — were ... Then they said cord-cutting might exist, but only in edge cases. ... Viacom and 21st Century Fox are down 7 percent.
Cord-Cutting Weighs on Pay TV
In-Depth-Wall Street Journal-20 hours ago Explore in depth (754 more articles)
US Stocks Drop on Media Meltdown
Wall Street Journal-4 hours ago
21st Century Fox Inc. declined 6.4% after lowering its expectations ... “It's been the long-running fear that we would eventually see cord-cutting.
Wall St. slumps as media stocks bleed
Media stocks are among biggest losers in afternoon trading
Madison.com-3 hours ago
CORD-CUTTING: Walt Disney and other media giants sank ... 21st Century Fox, which owns MTV, also reported a drop in television revenue.
