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Jacksonville, FL | Dyamic Cable Provisioning Cable Labs is working on a dynamic channel provisioning scheme that allows customers to add or drop channels on a monthly basis. Of course this won't bypass the "must carry" provision the FCC has on cable for local stations but it will permit the end watcher to determine every 30 days what channels they wish to carry and push the responsibility of decent content back to the channel originator.
Obviously the benefit of this is that customers only get (and pay) for what they want. However this doesn't preclude the cable carrier to charge a high carriage fee for just a connection.
The only people blocking this are Disney, ESPN and other monolithic channels that have heavy carry provisions in their contracts. ESPN has a "basic-must carry" provision in some of their contracts which says a cable carrier must place it in the basic service regardless of the raising rate. This is what has caused a great deal of the problems as of late.
Either way, its still greed pure and simple. Direct TV, Echostar and others are having the same problems with ESPN and others too. |
