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| reply to neowulf
Re: Its back off the shelf said by neowulf:I think the real problem is that they are a cable company before they are a internet service provider. They are trying to protect the outdated business model, when à la carte is what people want, and you can find online now. You don't have to subscribe to some over inflated package of 50 channels you will never watch just for the one or two they stick in the package you watch all the time. Cable cannot choose to do a-la-carte. There are comm companies that own multiple networks (the recent Viacom/TWC fight comes to mind) that dont let cable buy single networks. So, if one of these companies owns a populat channel (Nickelodeon) and ALSO another not-so-popular-channel they want to sell the cable companies (Water Poloing Horses), cable has to buy ALL channels the other companies want to sell them.
That cost, of course, is passed onto the consumer. There are a lot of niche channels out there that people would pay for, but the price per channel would be expodential as opposed to what is now). |
