Chairman Walden Warning: Content-Controlling Viewers Should 'Scare Heck' Out Of Cable

Speaking at the American Cable Association annual summit, House Communications Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) said that consumers would ultimately settle the debate over the rights to move TV programming to smaller screens, and he thinks it will be by becoming their own programmers. He said he thinks the people now creating their own audio playlists will start doing that for video as well. "Eventually [consumers] will create their own lineup of shows the way they want them. That ought to scare the heck out of you," he told his American Cable Association audience. He said that ultimately the delivery platforms for programming will change so that it will be available on iPads and other tablets" because consumers and market forces will dictate it.