{"id":1046,"date":"2007-02-15T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-15T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1046"},"modified":"2007-02-15T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T07:27:00","slug":"life-is-a-cabaret-for-mts-and-shaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1046","title":{"rendered":"Life is a cabaret for MTS and Shaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhgoldberg.com\/blog\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" alt=\"Corus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.corusent.com\/images\/logos\/sml_corus-col.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.corusent.com\/corporate\/about\/index.asp\">Corus Entertainment<\/a>, controlled by the Shaw family, <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/cnw\/070213\/movie_central_mts_tv.html?.v=1\">entered into an agreement<\/a> with MTS to provide Movie Central on Demand to MTS TV customers.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Shaw is the incumbent cable company in MTS territory &#8211; where MTS has been extraordinarily successful in its TV offering.<\/p>\n<p>Cooperative competition or just plain pragmatism? Maximizing viewership for its property Movie Central? Is there a lesson to be learned for net neutrality about the effectiveness of the marketplace to do the right thing for consumers?<\/p>\n<p>Profit has proven itself to be a good motivator for content owners and distribution channels to maximize the value of their products, even when the content owners compete with the distributor.<\/p>\n<p>Money makes the world go around.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:78%;\">Technorati Tags:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/MTS\" rel=\"tag\">MTS<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Shaw\" rel=\"tag\">Shaw<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Corus\" rel=\"tag\">Corus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Movie+Central\" rel=\"tag\">Movie Central<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corus Entertainment, controlled by the Shaw family, entered into an agreement with MTS to provide Movie Central on Demand to MTS TV customers. Keep in mind that Shaw is the incumbent cable company in MTS territory &#8211; where MTS has been extraordinarily successful in its TV offering. Cooperative competition or just plain pragmatism? Maximizing viewership &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/mhgoldberg.com\/blog\/?p=1046\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Life is a cabaret for MTS and Shaw<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Life is a cabaret for MTS and Shaw &#8226; Telecom Trends<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Corus Entertainment, controlled by the Shaw family, entered into an agreement with MTS to provide Movie Central on Demand to MTS TV customers.Keep in mind &#8226; 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