Cable Television
topic on 5 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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5 statements about Cable Television, every show
Friedberg: Consumer AI subscriptions will surpass cable TV peak adoption
“And AI that can book your travel, answer questions for you, track your calendar, do your email, et cetera, is likely going to be the most valuable, call it meta service that consumers have ever seen. And I think it's very likely that we're going to end up seei…”
Parr: Early cable television was the original SaaS business model
“And a lot of it happened in the eighties, the late seventies and the early eighties when cable was getting popular. And it was sort of like the first version of a SaaS business. You know, it was recurring revenue, huge TAM kind of weird and unknown.”
Sharma: TRAI must-carry rules made cable TV more expensive for consumers
“Now in India, cable television is Follows the must carry rule. It's good for the ecosystem, but not good for the consumer. You pay actually more for cable TV today than you were paying earlier, because that is how the system is set up.”
Hendricks: Early 1970s Cable Was Legally Restricted to Retransmitting Broadcast Signals
“Cable was around, so this would have been probably around 1972 or 73, but cable was Really a community antenna. There are a lot of places in America that couldn't receive a good broadcast signal. Either they were down in the hollows or they were in urban areas…”