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Why would CBS care about how people access their junk? They get paid by advertisers who care about eyeballs. More eyeballs, more money for CBS. Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages.

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> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages

Yep, in the form of "retransmission fees" paid by the cable companies. CBS currently makes about 250M dollars a year from these fees, and they project that'll be up to 2B by 2020: http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmiss...

Of course that projection may be inflated for their own selfish reasons.

wow, talk about easy money.

They do pay pretty big bucks; both CBS and the local affiliate groups tend to have pretty long drawn-out conflicts over those fees. Yet their signal is still broadcast for free.

Yeah, I don't get it either. :/

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