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Cable and Satellite Industries
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Lil Context
• Cable + Satellite=– Multi-Channel Television Industries
• 87-90% of U.S. TV households get programming.
• 60% of Americans households subscribe to cable. This means…– Most Americans PAY for service!!!
• 347 million global subscribers• Industry employs about 300,000, $178B
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History
• 1948, retransmitting broadcast signals in rural areas
• CATV– Community Antenna Television– Astoria, Oregon– Leroy E. "Ed" Parsons – $3, $125
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History/Reg.• First commercial services beginning in
1949– Pay fee=get city network signals– CATV systems set up across the rural U.S.
• 1949, the FCC catches wind
• In the next decade some other parties catch wind and aren’t too fond of CATV?– Local Stations– Networks
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History/Reg. Cont’d
• In the 1960s, the Supreme Court upholds the FCC’s right to regulate CATV
• CATV as an industry slowly developed until the 1970s???– New programming– New Services– Basic, Premium and…– SUPERSTATIONS– Deregulation???
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Funding???
• Advertising
• Installation Services
• Basic Cable subscriptions
• Premium Cable subscriptions
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Regulation?• Regulates mainly…
– content
• Not?– Rate price– Cross ownership
• 1990s, gov. regulated…$20 for plans• From 1993-98, the FCC resolved…
– 18,000 complaints – In 5,700 communities – Ordering $100 million in consumer refunds to
40 million cable subscribers
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Regulation Cont’d
• From 1998-2003, cable rates soar 3x’s the inflation rate– Up 59% since 1998
• So, what happened???– 1996 Telecommunications Act– Allows Cable providers to own ISPs and
phone companies– Gov. does not have the right to keep cable
rates in check
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Markets
• Local/National– Audiences and advertisers
• Most lucrative market?– Basic cable, 55% of industry revenues– Premium/Pay, 11% of revenues– Other 34%
• Rentals, installation fees, modems, pay-per-view
• Phone and ISPs???
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Competition???
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Major Players
• Comcast– 2002, bought AT&T Broadband
• Time Warner
• Charter Communications
• Cox Communications
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• 26.7M subscribers
• $22.25B in revenues
• Lobby against "family tier" and "a la carte" bills
• Hire family members of mayors, congressmen, senators, etc.
• Brian and Ralph Roberts own 1/3 stock
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Resistance???
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The Present Market
• In 2008 digital cable subscribers up 14%
• Satellite subscribers 6%.
• 2008, 85% of households subscribed to either cable or satellite.
• Top 20 multiple system operators (MSOs) serve??? – 90 percent of cable subscribers in U.S.– This indicates…???