CBS' Moonves: We may go off-air if Aereo prevails [telecom]

By Samantha Bookman, FierceOnLineVideo March 12, 2014

In a statement that sounds a lot like sour grapes, CBS Corp. President and CEO Les Moonves told investors at a Miami conference that if the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Aereo in its copyright case, the network might shut down linear TV operations and go completely over the top.

"If Aereo should work, if they should win, which we don't think will happen, we can go OTT with CBS," he said Tuesday at the Deutsche Bank Media, Internet and Telecom Conference.

Moonves said a court decision in favor of Aereo, the OTT service that rents antennas to subscribers and delivers the signals to their residences via the Web, would be tantamount to the government giving permission for Aereo to "steal our signal" and that CBS would need to figure out some other way to get content to viewers and "still get paid for it."

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