mr. bosworth. in terms of us providing services to mr. sherwin's company, that is not -- that does not have to do anything with the merger. if it makes business sense to do it, we have done it. provided they are in compliance with our overall terms and conditions as a reseller. one point i just wanted to address, too, is mr. sherwin addressed buying services from time warner telecom. not to overly complicate things, but that's exactly a separate publicly traded company headquartered in denver. >> right. >> as relates to the back nine network, a couple things i just want to address. previously mr. bosworth indicated conversations stalled as a result of the comcast transaction. that couldn't be further from the truth. between signing and ultimate closing of the transaction, we are obviously acting on our own to make all of those such decisions. it would be inappropriate for us to be consulting at all with comcast. so any decisions we make, we will make on our own and it will be made on a price value relationship for our customers taking int

mr. bosworth, if i might just take a moment for one more question. >> you take as long as you want, mr. chairman. >> no, i want to give everybody else a chance. >> you're fair. >> thank you. mr. bosworth -- and i'll have other questions for others for the record, but i'm intrigued by what you discussed about your network. i'm not a golfer, but the fact that you have 24-hour network and people want -- that's pretty amazing. you worked very hard at doing that. i understand your frustration that you can't get cable or satellite. why is it critical for you to be carried by comcast? could you simply operate -- could you simply operate as an online video service? >> thank you, senator. that's actually a great question, and while online content and over-the-top content is increasing, the average american still watches 20 times more video content via television, and the advertising rates mirror that as well. >> i will have other questions for the record. i'm going to be leaving soon, but i will come back. the questions i want to submit for the record are important to this consideration. also ke

mr. bosworth. in terms of us providing services to mr. sherwin's company, that is not -- that does not have to do anything with the merger. if it makes business sense to do it, we have done it. provided they are in compliance with our overall terms and conditions as a reseller. one point i just wanted to address, too, is mr. sherwin addressed buying services from time warner telecom. not to overly complicate things, but that's exactly a separate publicly traded company headquartered in denver. >> right. >> as relates to the back nine network, a couple things i just want to address. previously mr. bosworth indicated conversations stalled as a result of the comcast transaction. that couldn't be further from the truth. between signing and ultimate closing of the transaction, we are obviously acting on our own to make all of those such decisions. it would be inappropriate for us to be consulting at all with comcast. so any decisions we make, we will make on our own and it will be made on a price value relationship for our customers taking int

mr. bosworth, if i might just take a moment for one more question. >> you take as long as you want, mr. chairman. >> no, i want to give everybody else a chance. >> you're fair. >> thank you. mr. bosworth -- and i'll have other questions for others for the record, but i'm intrigued by what you discussed about your network. i'm not a golfer, but the fact that you have 24-hour network and people want -- that's pretty amazing. you worked very hard at doing that. i understand your frustration that you can't get cable or satellite. why is it critical for you to be carried by comcast? could you simply operate -- could you simply operate as an online video service? >> thank you, senator. that's actually a great question, and while online content and over-the-top content is increasing, the average american still watches 20 times more video content via television, and the advertising rates mirror that as well. >> i will have other questions for the record. i'm going to be leaving soon, but i will come back. the questions i want to submit for the record are important to this consideration. also ke

mr. bosworth, and, frankly, i don't participate in program affiliation negotiations. you'll all be pleased to hear. but my folks are telling me these are productive discussions. this is a network we might end up wanting to launch, might want to be part of our system. they, however, are not in competition with the golf channel. >> i'm going to let you negotiate after -- >> can i just mention -- >> i am going to just finish up here with mr. minson and i really appreciate your testimony and i think that if, in fact, the negotiations are productive or not, we'll see if we can get the channel, right, mr. lee? and i think you two should talk about it later. mr. minson. >> thank you. i just wanted to respond to a lement ..h. in terms of us providing services to mr. sherwin's company, that is not -- that does not have to do anything with the merger. if it makes business sense to do it, we have done it. provided they are in compliance with our overall terms and conditions as a reseller. one point i just wanted to address, too, is mr. sherwin addressed buying services from time