> if I get one, I have to get dozens, and it's essentially impossible for channels to fail in the market Totally untrue! Cable companies have to pay a rate to

> if I get one, I have to get dozens, and it's essentially impossible for channels to fail in the market Totally untrue! Cable companies have to pay a rate to get a channel. Most channels don’t fail, their viewership drops and then they turn into cheap syndication products and mostly use ad money. ESPN is like $15 of your cable bill, and OXY is like $.05. If they didn’t have enough viewers to break even on content costs and broadcast costs off of ad money, they would stop broadcasting.