it's a beyond ridiculous price.
that's $480 an oz for something that cost $35 oz for yrs till Reagan came along.
and yes, it's better now, but you also have huge economies of scale and mass production now compared to then.
your industry knowledge is so lacking that you have no business even in the debate.
the same with your grasp of what is and isn't a monopoly.
the networks in the bundle, all of them, demand 100% carriage, which forces the all or none of every channel within the bundle.
it's literally all said...
save your BS.
the fact that consumers can bring a complaint, doesn't mean they should have to, or have any chance of winning against multinational conglomerates with infinite resources.
we have an FTC for a reason.
and Wall St captured it for a reason. (just as it did the FCC).
and news...
wrong.
the networks themselves contractually mandated the bundle through each mandating 100% carriage, not the pay tv providers.
and had the providers created it, (with all the competing providers creating the exact same bundle through the greatest coincidence in history), it still would...
angry much?
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i can't credibly disagree with or counter anything you said, so i'll try and attack you personally instead.
what a total crock.
a company can require you to buy more than one of it's products, to buy any.
but the instant said company enters into an agreement with all it's competitors that no one can buy any company's product without also buying the competing product of all it's competitors, they...
and yet neither could make a credible case in the slightest that the forced pay tv bundle isn't an anti trust violation.
nor could either name so much as one other industry where this sht goes on, as i challenged them to do.
and there's a good reason they didn't and couldn't.
competing...
still waiting for any of you guys to make your case.
or pointing out any other industry where this happens.
good luck with that.
obviously you have nothing.
i don't consider pointing out that someone is wrong as a "personal insult", nor should you.
if 711 or you want to make a case for why competing entities contractually entering into an agreement where none can be purchased absent the purchase of all isn't anti competitive collusion and an anti...
obviously you don't, so spare me your BS.
i have my own expertise as well.
if you can't recognize the forced pay tv bundle as a monopolistic anti competitive anti trust violation, then you have zero idea what an anti trust violation is.
you obviously have absolutely zero idea what an anti trust violation is.
it would literally be impossible to be any more of a monopolistic anti competitive anti trust violation than the forced pay tv bundle, where competing entities have entered into contractual mandates that none can be...
total BS.
any salary cap and roster limit is a blatant anti trust violation, on top of the monopolistic negotiating cartels.
but like i said, sports have long been exempted from these anti trust laws in the name of competitive balance, which i have no problem with.
that said, the pay tv...
would love to see the NCAA mandate players call their own plays, on offense and defense.
make it a part of the game for players along with execution.
the coaching play calling industrial complex has jumped the shark and gotten beyond ridiculous.