Aereo CEO: 'We're on the Side of the Angels'Aereo, which snatches over-the-air TV signals and streams them on the internet for a few dollars a month, is determined to prevail over the TV networks trying to bring it down.
ByJason Ankeny•
This story appears in theApril 2014issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »
The ratings are in. Americans love TV--and they hate their cable providers with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. Gripes ranging from annual price hikes to technical snafus to restrictive bundled packages continue to relegate cable companies to the cellar of consumer experience surveys: In a study by research firm Temkin Group that ranks the customer service of 235 companies in 19 industries, TV service providers occupy six of the seven bottom spots.
Chet Kanojia feels subscribers' pain. "Media consumption is changing and evolving, but there hasn't been a whole lot of technological progress and innovation around the cable customer experience and around billing," he says. "Consumers feel like they're still stuck in an era where they're not being heard."