CNBC: With a vote to free cable boxes from the stranglehold of cable providers, FCC chairman Tom Wheeler may have triggered a battle royale between media companies of all stripes. Right now, “the titans, being the programmers and the distributors, control a closed echo-system. Digital companies want in on that as it is an enormous opportunity for them. … The people that have already flocked to oppose this rule-making include 21st Century Fox, ABC, CBS and the Motion Picture Association of America.”