Free Press has come out swinging against “TV Everywhere”—the cable industry’s bid to migrate its video content from your set-top box to your computer. But no sooner did the advocacy group release its not-too-subtly titled paper “TV Nowhere: How the Cable Industry Is Colluding to Kill Online TV,” than big cable cried foul.
“Free Press’s description of TV Everywhere is a reminder of the admonition that people are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own set of facts,” shot back National Cable and Telecommunications Association CEO Kyle McSlarrow on Monday. “The call for an ‘investigation’ of TV Everywhere has no factual or legal basis, no matter how many times Free Press and its allies repeat the words ‘collusion,’ ‘cartel’ and ‘illegal’.”
