{"id":647408,"date":"2013-03-18T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=383627"},"modified":"2013-03-18T22:56:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T02:56:19","slug":"verizons-plan-to-shake-up-the-tv-industry-only-offer-channels-customers-want-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647408","title":{"rendered":"Verizon\u2019s plan to shake up the TV industry: Only offer channels customers want to watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/verizon-fios-tv-channels-pay-383627\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"377\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/verizon-sign-128.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=377&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Verizon FiOS TV Channels\" title=\"Verizon\" \/><\/a><\/center>Cable service providers in the United States are obligated to offer lesser watched channels if they want to carry some of the more popular names. Companies such as Viacom (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VIAB&amp;ql=0\">VIAB<\/a>), Comcast (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=CMCSA&amp;ql=0\">CMCSA<\/a>) and others have bundled these smaller, more niche channels to service providers for years, however cable companies are starting to fight back. Cablevision (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=cvc\">CVC<\/a>) recently filed suit against Viacom over this practice and other providers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=vz\">VZ<\/a>) are looking into new and &#8220;disruptive&#8221; payment models.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/18\/verizon-fios-tv-channels-pay-383627\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/v3N_HN2mvz0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable service providers in the United States are obligated to offer lesser watched channels if they want to carry some of the more popular names. Companies such as Viacom (VIAB), Comcast (CMCSA) and others have bundled these smaller, more niche channels to service providers for years, however cable companies are starting to fight back. Cablevision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}