At one point in the eighties, I owned over 10 percent of NYT, but I watched in frustration as management bartered away serious money for the aging Cowles magazine stable, invested in the teaching machine craze and divested a promising foothold in a cableTVsystem.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
The majority held that by providing individual streams to consumers according to their specific commands, Aereo was less like a cable-TV system than a consumer streaming a TV show from a Slingbox in one room to a TV set in another.