Posted on 11/28/2005 9:15:35 PM PST by HAL9000
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Federal regulators are on the verge of suggesting that cable companies could best serve consumers by letting them subscribe to individual channels instead of offering only prepackaged bundles.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is expected to announce today at a Senate forum on indecency that the FCC will soon reissue its review of cable industry "à la carte" pricing with a wholly different conclusion. While the original report concluded that consumers would pay more for individual channels, the new one concludes they could pay less.
"This report will conclude that à la carte could be in the best interest of consumers," said an FCC official familiar with the revised report's contents. The report also finds that "themed tiers" of channels could be "economically feasible," the official said.
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What will happen is they will put a price on each one that will make the total similar package add up top three times the cost.
History Channel, Fox News, Discovery Channel.
How much?
If I ever watched TV again, those would be the channels. If they would offer that, I might go for it.
They will price themselves right out of the market.AWB
I was asking for this 20 years ago. Hope it happens soon.
Not if you are like me. I won't have HBO, Comedy Central, MTV,VH1 or anything owned by Ted "Eat my Buffalo Steaks" Turner in my house so we do not have cable. With Ala Carte, I will order Fox News, ESPN and maybe a couple of other channels and that's it.
You spelled MTV wrong, it`s Empty-V.
You omitted GoreTV.
A mere oversight, I'm sure...
12.95 each, plus 4.95 for cable access, 6.95 for a converter box, 3.86 in franchise fees, plus 1.88 in tax to pay for the war of 1812 --- or you can get 73 channels including those three for only 49.95.
Actually any channel that doesn`t have 10 billion commercials every 2 seconds is fine with me.
CNN and MTV would be outta my cable ASAP...now if only I can call the cable before my wife does, I can keep Spike and lose HGTV...
Unfortunatly, in most places they still have a monopoly in most places, and there is no market.
Turner Classic Movies can be quite good. They even have an occasional patriotic themed day - war movies where the US is the good guy, for example. (Actually, he's now just a minor shareholder in the empire which controls AOL Time Warner and the old Turner properties (although they have now dropped AOL from the name). )
OMG! How could I have left that out?
Some channels pay the cable companies for carrying their content. So consumers would have to decide if they were willing to accept a $0.50/month discount in exchange for allowing QVC into their home.
....hey, I was thinking of getting rid of SPIKE! FX too!
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