Sentence examples for the basic tiers from inspiring English sources

"They're going to try to push Disney channels onto the basic tiers, because that's synergy.

Meanwhile, forcing dozens of channels into the basic tier also gets the programmers instant scale 110 million households for advertisers.

Cablevision is at an impasse with the YES Network; it has refused to pay the fees YES is requesting and to place it on the basic tier, where all other cable systems in the metropolitan area have agreed to put it.

Hazlett says that platform players like Verizon and Comcast can't mimic the a la carte strategy because of the 1992 Cable Act, which mandates that all cable providers' offers must start with a basic tier that includes the over-the-air channels, the so-called "buy through provision". You have to buy through the basic tier; additional channels must be on top of that.

These objections are serious, and where a supplementary tier undermines the basic tier in either way, economically or politically, priority must be given to protecting the basic tier.

It might attract better-quality providers away from the basic tier, or raise costs in the basic tier, reducing the ability of society to meet its social obligations.

The basic tier includes 10 credits and supports up to 2 children.

One objection to allowing a supplementary tier is that its existence might undermine the basic tier either economically or politically.

There should be no obstacles financial, racial, geographical, and so on to access to the basic tier of the system.

In the other, the basic tier serves only the poorest groups in society and most other people buy supplementary insurance.

Highly visible forms of saving lives and improving function would be difficult to exclude from the basic tier while we make them available in a supplementary tier.