CABLE SHOW 2014: Rogers’ Lind, other cable execs, foresee future gains thanks to Netflix

LOS ANGELES – Despite the increasingly powerful competitive threat posed by large Internet video providers like Netflix, some top cable executives believe that Netflix may start producing some benefits for them as well.Speaking on an opening panel of the Cable Show here Tuesday, the optimistic MSO executives argued that Netflix may actually come to the aid of the cable industry now that a number of cable operators have struck peering or carriage deals with the online bide king. They seemed hopeful that these recent deals, such as last week's carriage agreements between Netflix and three U.S. operators and the earlier...