From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Here we made a film about powerful people holding sway over our public institutions,

and the film itself was caught up in the undue influence of these powerful people in public media.

Filmmakers Tia Lesson and Carl Deal talk about why their documentary Citizen Coke was dropped

by public television. Then another pair of filmmakers who figured out how to market their small

indie drama with a potato chip. But first on the news banter, Aereo is a no-go and Paramount has big trouble in not so little China.

Stay tuned, it's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my fellow banterer, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine.

How are you, Michael?

Hello, Kim. I'm good.

So, you know, there has been a lot said already about the Supreme Court's decision in the case involving Aereo.

And this is that service that was going to allow you to, what did allow you, if you lived in the right places, to watch the broadcast networks through your computer

using these little dime-sized broadcasting antennas. And you could save a lot of money by doing that.

You didn't have to pay a big cable bill to see those broadcast networks. But guess what?

Aerio's going away. Yeah, there was a lot of energy sort of devoted to stopping this at the networks, at the

broadcasters. I always felt that Aereo was sort of a solution in search of a problem.

No one is actually demanding to watch live streams of television stations on their devices.

It's just not something people want to do. They want to stream, you know, original content.

They want a time shift. They don't want to do

this. But there's a larger issue at play, which is the broadcast networks, they see how

antiquated their whole entire ecosystem is. And they know that technology is coming and changing,

and they fear it. They don't know what the solution is. They're just afraid that this is the

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