The Deregulation of Cable Television

The Television Struggle: an Assessment of Over-the-Top Television Evolutions in a Cable Dominant Market

Traditional television screens have lost their monopoly on television content. With a helping hand of digitalization, the introduction of ever more screens in our lives and increasingly faster network technologies, a wide variety of alternative screens and sources of television content are trying to conquer a piece of the audiences' viewing time. This evolution calls for new kinds of services a...

Public Policy and the Evolution of Cable Television: 1950-1990

The cable television industry evolved from make-shift configurations of antennae and wires serving fewer than one hundred customers in 1950, to an industry serving 50 million subscribers and generating revenues of almost $18 billion by 1990 [30, 31]. Although entrepreneurial ingenuity and technological innovation provided the foundation for this extraordinary growth, the Federal Communications ...

The Discriminatory Incentives to Bundle in the Cable Television Industry∗

An influential theoretical literature supports a discriminatory explanation for product bundling: it reduces consumer heterogeneity, sorting consumers in a manner similar to 2nd-degree price discrimination. This paper tests this theory and quantifies its importance in the cable television industry. The results provide strong support for the theory and suggest that bundling a top-15 cable networ...

Vertical Integration and Program Access in the Cable Television Industry*

Effective competition for local monopoly cable systems would seem to offer a natural solution to nagging problems widely attributed to the cable industry, such as high prices and poor service. In regulatory and legislative proceedings leading up to the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992,(note 1) however, potential or existing competitors to local cable systems comp...

3 Economies of Scale in Cable Television : A Multiproduct Analysis