ok I stand corrected
It all depends on the situation, MOST are sent via Fiber now, but I do remember them being sent OTA as well.
like I said before these signals are being pushed out on fiber well guess what fiber techs arent cheap to employ.
Actually I don't think ATT has specific fiber techs, some of the guys do fiber others don't, we all make the same money.
Your point is ?
ATT pays those techs $30+ a hour to do their job and that is in low paying Oklahoma. Now the pay for a tech working in a high cost urban area or on either coast is going to be much higher.
and you just proved my point that it costs money for the broadcast stations to pump their feed to the video providers and some body has to eat that cost.
this is what is expected when you have stockholders, they expect to see a return on their investment, this is for any publicly traded company.
Okay then so we found common ground. Seems as if you agree that there is no other reason for the retrans fee other than to fatten up the bottom line from the station owners.
I have a infrastructure improvement fee on my bill, that was approved by the OK Corporation Commission. I am like wtf there is such a thing called the cost of doing business, but it seems like our elected leadership no longer represents the people but they are more than happy to hook up the corporations.
