This sounds really awesome, but I cannot see this being really effective. For individual channels, they can just make it extremely cost-prohibitive to purchase

This sounds really awesome, but I cannot see this being really effective. For individual channels, they can just make it extremely cost-prohibitive to purchase single channels. Want ESPN? $20/month or you can get 20 channels for $25/month. There are some people that will take that, but I wouldn't count on it. Same goes for cable bundling. You don't have to take ESPN with ABC, but you can either have either one of them for $15m each (making up numbers), or $15,000,001 for both. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but these companies are experts in ignoring what people want. Without very careful checks, they'll find a way to keep their margins (which, given that they own the content, they absolutely have the right to do, as much as it upsets me.)