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| said by StudioTech:It's the sports programming that's driving up the costs for the most part. Make ESPN and the regional sports channels a la carte. Hell yeah! I hate paying for all that crap that I'm never going to watch, and I'm betting it's some of the more expensive programming for the cable/satellite providers.
Even worse, with satellite I have to deal with all the overcompression so they can handle a few hundred sports channels carrying all the regional action.
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| reply to StudioTech
Bingo. They don't have to make EVERY channel a la carte. Just the channels that have a strong enough focus on costs that would make the customer want to decide if they want to pay that cost. You can break them up into packages like a sports package, news package, premium entertainment package (for channels like FX, Spike, TNT, E!, etc), music video package and so on. Leave a good helping of general programming and some of those fringe programs still in your standard package for a low fee and you buy up for the other packages.
It might never happen, but I like the idea. |
