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Re: Offer channels a la carte Assuming the content providers went through with that, your price per channel would be about 2$+. To equal what cable typically costs today, you would only get 25 channels before you hit the $50/mo price mark for basic. Depending on how big your family is and their viewing habits, that's not a bargain at all.
A la carte is not going to happen anyways, though.
Networks like NBCU aren't going to give up a dedicated contract with guaranteed revenues in favor of highly variable revenues, and a decrease in ad revenue from lost subscribers that a la carte would offer.
Of all of the below networks that NBC currently sells as part of a contract to cable and satellite companies, they'd lose MY revenue and viewership on all but 3 stations:
A&E Television Networks
Bravo
Chiller
CNBC
MSNBC
Mun2
NBC
Oxygen
SCI FI
ShopNBC
Sleuth
Telemundo Internacional
The Weather Channel
Universal HD
USA Network
Universal Sports
Really, who would *pay* for ShopNBC?
NBC uses their leverage of their strong stations to negotiate contracts which include their smaller stations. The more stations NBC can sell to cable and satellite, the more advertising revenue they can sell. They're not going to let that bargaining chip go easily into the night.
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join:2003-07-05 | ShopNBC would get more viewers than MSNBC does.
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 DataDocMy avatar looks like me, if I was 2D.Premium
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Not all channels would cost the same, like HBO, but using your $2 each, I could easily get by with 25 channels. I just don't want to help pay for ESPN (for example) so everyone else gets it cheaper. Let them pay $10/mo for sports. |
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tiger72SexaT duorPPremium
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| said by DataDoc:Not all channels would cost the same, like HBO, but using your $2 each, I could easily get by with 25 channels. I just don't want to help pay for ESPN (for example) so everyone else gets it cheaper. Let them pay $10/mo for sports. I personally could get by with my OTA antenna and a couple cable networks (Sci Fi, UniversalHD, ESPN, Comedy Central, HDNet) if i could do a la carte, but once I add my girlfriend's demands (Bravo, FX, etc.) things start adding up quickly.
So instead i've simply chosen to cancel satellite, and just use Usenet, Vista Media Center and PlayOn for all my media needs.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
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Which is precisely why this fair and rational change will only happen when the dreaded government regulators make them do it. As they should have a long time ago. |
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| said by davey :
Which is precisely why this fair and rational change will only happen when the dreaded government regulators make them do it. As they should have a long time ago.
Unfortunately, that's not happening with this administration. |
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