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I am part of the group of people who would go back to the cable companies if they would budge on their channel packages. I would pay per channel if I could jus
by luckyno13 13y ago
I am part of the group of people who would go back to the cable companies if they would budge on their channel packages. I would pay per channel if I could just customize my listing.
I bring this up because you are totally right, but at the same time if the cable companies will evolve to what consumers want, they may not have to take this route.
If not, we can hope they dont charge too much more, they are already making the US look stupid on the world stage of internet access prices.
- pbreit 13y ago"Unbundling" is completely stupid. Be careful what you ask for because you are going to wind up paying the same amount for your 20 channels as you do now for your 200. That's just simple business and economics. The marginal cost to deliver you a channel is zero.
- jeremyjh 13y agoImagine there is a channel - BlubTV - that NOONE would subscribe to if it were unbundled. Yet the cost of producing it is not zero. Unbundling eliminates the tax we pay to support useless TV that people only watch out of pure desperation.
- pbreit 13y agoIt's the opposite. A channel with limited appeal would likely need to pay the cable provider to get included. This is all very basic economics and human behavior.
- dangrossman 13y agoCable companies don't decide on the channel packages they offer. They're sold to the cable companies by the media conglomerates that own the stations in bundles. No ABC without ESPN, etc. It's not their product to unbundle, in other words.
- prostoalex 13y agoWhy a la carte cable won’t save you as much as you think: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/30/why-a-la-carte-cable-wont-save-you-as-much-as-you-think/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/30/w...