You can watch live tv on your computer, and smartphone. Thecan even record shows to cloud for later viewing. The Service Costs eight dollars or 12 a month. Preaereo there were three ways to watch broadcast television. Antenna to your roof and get it for free, get a Cable Company or Satellite Company for a box or a dish. While you are paying cable and satellite companies, they are paying broadcasters to retransmit programming to the tune of about 4 billion a year. You know how much aereo. Pays networks . Zilch. It is pulling down the same free signal anyone can get with their antenna. The fact that the antennas are in a warehouse should not matter. Broadcasters say aereo is no different from a Cable Company. In march 2012, they sued aereo for violating copyrights. The lawsuit hinges on one thing, whether or not aereos retransmission is a public performance. Infringingereo is because they have not paid for programming by Cable Companies do. If the Court Decides aereos service is a lot of
Ther, we will talk to Senior Vice President of cbs interactive about the future of Digital Deals amid the era of threat. The big headline this morning, a little monopoly talk. Acquire timeeed to warner cable for 45 billion. Combining the two Cable Companies in a deal. Paying about 159 a share. The dollar shy of time warners asking price. A rare day out in the cold, but here you have it. The darth vader of cable. That is his moniker. I want to bring in alex sherman right now, and he broke this story for us and he covers comcast and Time Warner Cable for bloomberg. Talk to us about the idea of a monopoly here. Have, if they get rid of 3 million subscribers, they will have 30 market share. I feel like they will have closer to 75 of the cable universe. You got it. Question to regulators will be, how do you define the market that often . If you include directv and dish and verizon files, comcast will of all paytv subscribers. If you look at this world as just Cable Companies, comcast become