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NPGMBR

join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA
reply to RayW
Re: I get 99 channels...

Something about this just doesn't make sense. U.S. Companies are always trying to squeeze an extra dollar out of their customers so you'd think they would jump all over A La Carte pricing.........Unless in fact it truly would drop prices.


marigolds
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Depends on which companies you mean.
Cable companies are basically contracturally forbidden by the content providers from using a la carte. The content providers would get a smaller share of cable revenue under a la carte while a greater part of the revenue would go to system maintainence.
So, the content providers would lose money, the cable companies cannot do anything, and price would not change much.
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NPGMBR

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I see problems with that model. The content providers need to Cable operators to delivery their product. You'd think the CableCos would have the upper-hand but judging from what you said, they give the content providers all the power. I would have thought that the CableCos would try to snatch that power from the content providers when they sign their next contract because they need eachother other equally.
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