| Payment Right now I pay about $50 for a bundle of about 120 or so odd channel. I only actually watch about 5 of these, ever.
I would rather my $50 went to those channels that I like. So, while I would be getting less for the same amount of money, that money would go to support only the channels I actually use.
Better yet though, would be to pay $25 for those 5 channels. Better for both me, because I pay less, and those channels because $5 is still more than they individually make in the bundle deal. In a way, it would be better for the cable provider too because now they only need to provide me 1/24 of the bandwidth and still get half the price.
Now, I'm sure it doesn't actually work this way. It's not as simple as simply dividing by bandwidth or channels and advertising is probably where the majority of profits come from anyways.
The point though, is that if they were to offer them a la carte, even at a substantially higher price per channel (meaning buying all the channels individually would be considerably more expensive, perhaps by a great deal, than getting them a la carte) I would be in favor of it.
It would still work out to my advantage, the individual channel's advantage, and arguably the cable provider's advantage. Unfortunately, these things are never so simple, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be.
Love,
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