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...border of foreign countries or the brave souls who listened surreptitiously to shortwave radios. But in the decade since satellite television blossomed in Asia, all that has changed: foreign broadcasters are eager to get into the China market, Beijing is willing to have them (if it can control content) and the market is one of the world's biggest plums. Whether China will actually allow direct-to-viewer foreign television transmissions is another matter. The technological bottleneck?and potential filter?created by a centralized uplink facility could soothe the anxieties of China's political mandarins. Such a policy change would...
...fees are prohibitive," says one foreign broadcast executive in China. "But if the market was going to grow in some exponential fashion through this, people would be willing to listen to anything." An executive from a rival company has similar thoughts. He declares that he won't change editorial content to please China's censors. "But," he adds, "given the size of the investment, the new policy does encourage broadcasters to be cautious. No one wants to ruin their chances." If the plan goes through, China's couch potatoes are in for a whole lot more programming?though it might...
...cable dominance could be good for bringing more customers into the world of broadband, an industry that desperately needs them, and AOL could certainly promise that. But the prospect of a far-and-away dominant cable company - and one that already owns a hefty share of the all content under the sun - could be daunting to any regulator worried about the possibility of monopolistic pricing in a deregulated industry. And the way the Bush trustbusters haven?t quite let go of the Microsoft case is not a good sign (unless it?s a sign of the power...
...Disney and its gang - and Comcast, not to be counted out by any means - the upside of a marriage is pretty much the same: all of Lord Armstrong?s lands and a big step up on the ladder to the content-and-technology, one-stop-shopping convergence heaven everybody swears is the future of broadband...
...senior with an infectiously loud laugh and a general idea where 51 Brattle St. is can’t fix. I figure if one of them doesn’t ask for the “special after-hours tour” soon, I'll just have to remain content with the voices in my head...