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Numbers say two things about what is contrary to what some people thought were the conventional wisdom. One was that the need for and the demand for spectrum was not as great and we hear that often. We hear people say that there is no spectrum crisis and i think the value of what is being given suggested there is a tremendous need for this spectrum and then the other piece of conventional wisdom that i think is interesting to at least think about as we heard a lot about how certain spectrum is more valuable than others and it has to do with lower frequency spectrums and higher frequency spectr...

We think over the long term it has served and its in the business judgment of the league that has served it, but as that shows, clubs take extraordinary examples to avoid them. Im going to continue this conversation with you and the other witnesses but now turn to senator klobuchar. Thank you. Thank you very mu. Thank you to all of the witnesses. I thought id start with you, mr. Waldron. The blackout rule was put in place in 1961, is that right . The Sports Broadcasting act was adopted in 1961. The fccs rule was put in place in 1975. Most of the money made by sports tickets came from ticket sa...

So that was the conclusion of singer et al. In the context of the proposed merger, take a market like los angeles. Los angeles has Time Warner Cable and as i mentioned Time Warner Cable owns a Regional Sports network. The merged entity would acquire roughly a quarter million new subscribers from charter. What does that mean . The local Cable Company is getting bigger. As a result, the trend we already see today when Time Warner Cable owns dodgers games and wont see to it to those games are seen by everybody, its going to get worse. If the cable footprint gets bigger. Thats why Sports Fans Coal...

Im supposed to be at a Foreign Relations meeting. Can i go ahead . You go first. Then well give Opening Statements. I thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member grassly. I thank you for letting me testify and thank you for making this hearing happen. Senator bloomingthales advocating for consumers valuable partner to work with on this issue in the area rules and regulations far often leave consumers holding the short end of the stick. Im here to discuss sports blackouts and to explain why the continued use of policies failed to serve the interest of consumers, in this case loyal sports fans. I ...

From the governments in central and eastern europe. Yeah. In particular the Czech Republic, slovakia, hungary. The defense minister of the Czech Republic recently and the president or sorry the Prime Minister of slovakia both said that stationing nato troops on inner territory would be akin or remind them of the warsaw pacts invasion of 1968. This is a remarkable thing to say. Both of these countries are nato members. Both of those men are old enough to remember what the actual warsaw pact invasion was like. You have hungary, which is a complete separate story. We could have a whole days panel...