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Originally Posted by wejones
Of course it is my understanding that those bars generally are supposed to pay a higher subscription cost for DTV, etc, because they are allowing more people to view. |
This is an ablolutely true assessment of the situation. Any business owner of any kind cannot "legally" put DTV, Dish or even the local cable company on any TV without the proper type of service. By type of service, I mean that the supplier, i.e. DTV, Dish etc. must know that the service is being used in this manner.
I used to work for a cable company and for a good amount of time, business owners could install high speed internet as a residental customer. This happened until there was a merger and the new "big boys" put a stop to this.
Unless something has changed, it is also illegal for a business owner to play cassettes, CD's or even AM/FM in the course of business unless the CD's and cassettes are marketed for the specific purpose of being played in the course of business. I guess businesses are expected to buy "Muzak" or something similar.
The park owner, in my opinion, would have to simply do the
installation without any cost directly passed upon to any tenant. There would be nothing wrong with raising the rents because this is done all the time when improvements are made, but, it could not be "specifically" because of coax carrying FTA signals.