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Cable packages are a win-win for everyone? This is going to be breaking news for the tens of millions of people who've dropped cable; please elaborate.
by noSyncCloud 4y ago
Cable packages are a win-win for everyone? This is going to be breaking news for the tens of millions of people who've dropped cable; please elaborate.
- PraetorianGourd 4y ago“Channels” are not uniformly priced. Some, like ESPN, are very expensive for the cable providers while others are cheap. But, those expensive (and popular) channels subsidizes smaller or niche channels.
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- treis 4y agoBecause packages allow both sides to get the long tail of revenue/content. If it's individual channels with a price $X then those not willing to pay X lose the content and the channel loses the revenue. To make up for the missing tail each channel will have to be priced higher individually than their slice of the package revenue.
- spuz 4y agoYou're assuming the only alternative is a pay per channel model. How about a Spotify-like all-you-can-eat model where providers actually compete on what they actually have control over such as user experience, quality and customer support?