The bill won't have any significant impact on most customers because cable channels won't charge the cable companies any less. If a cable companies has to pay,

The bill won't have any significant impact on most customers because cable channels won't charge the cable companies any less. If a cable companies has to pay, say, $1 Mio to distribute a channel, it needs the subscriptions to pay for that. It can either sell channels a la carte for a high fee, or sell bundles for a lower fee per channel. But the revenue will always need to be on the same level. The only difference will be that people who want very few extra channels may get them cheaper than people who want all available channels. But as soon as you want 3-4 channels (or whatever the amount of channels is that the average consumer is actually interested in), a la carte won't be cheaper than the bundle.