said by crgauth:Or that the eyes that are watching are paying more....
No. That's not what that means. Cable companies don't pay a flat fee for a channel. They pay per subscriber. If a channel charges say $1/subscriber, and they have 1 million subscribers at that programming tier, then the cable company pays the content company $1 million/month. If they move the channel to a higher tier which has, say 500,000 subscribers, then the cable company pays $500k/month. That's what it sounds like this deal is about.
It may be true that in future contract negotiations the cable company would be negotiating from a smaller footprint, reducing their bargaining position, which MAY result in Verizon paying more per channel than they would have otherwise, but I have a feeling that any difference would be negligible.
What it does mean, though, is that the eyes who no longer have the channel available are in effect paying more for their package, since they're going to get fewer channels for the same price. But those that have the channels available will pay the same for the channels after this change than they did before the change.