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marigolds
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Re: I get 99 channels...

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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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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