said by tlhIngan:It's not the cable channels fault - Shaw can easily drop a bunch of them and avoid paying the carriage fees.
Not as easy as you think. Content owners know when they have channels in demand and channels that aren't. Carriage fee's aren't the only thing they negotiate. They also negotiate carriage terms which includes things like bunding crappy channels in with popular ones (so they can sell the crappy channels).
The TV industry is way more crooked then you give it credit for.
You are right though. I think the Internet side of the business is becoming the profitibable one. The costs assosciated with licensing TV content are skyrocketing. Internet not so much.