The head of CBS ratcheted up the rhetoric yesterday, threatening to move the network off the airwaves and onto the Internet if Aereo's television streaming service prevails before the U.S. Supreme Court, but experts say it's likely just talk.
Broadcasters say Aereo, a New York City-based start-up with most of its staff in Boston, is violating copyright law by charging users to view over-the-air channels through the Internet. The case goes to the high court April 22.
CBS Chief Executive Les Moonves said at an investor conference yesterday that the network could offer its content over the Internet if Aereo's model is ruled legal.
"If Aereo should work, if they should win, which we don't think will happen, we can go OTT with CBS," Moonves said, referring to "over the top" Internet television. "If people want to steal our signal, if the government wants to give them permission to steal our signal, then we will come up with some other way to get them our content and still get paid for it."
Such a move would likely signal the end of local CBS programming, said John Barrett, a director of consumer analytics at Parks Associates.
"Depending on the way that this goes legally, there could be so much turned upside down," said Barrett.
An Aereo spokeswoman declined to comment.
Still, Barrett and others do not see that happening.
"Do you really want to make it harder for people to watch your content?" Barrett asked.
Michael Carrier, a law professor at Rutgers University, said Moonves and CBS are lobbying ahead of the Supreme Court hearing.
"My guess is that this is just a threat, that there are too many people that would be affected by this," he said.
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