We can sort of understand why.
If they had to go ala carte, then didn’t get enough subs willing to pay extra for the Midget Tossing Network to enable them to earn a profit, then they’d have to disappoint all those dozens of subs by dropping MTN.
It would be a tragedy.
(Should that be the Little Person Tossing Network? Don’t want to be unPC, you know.)
One of the big fighters against that ala carte move was TBN. I guess they couldn’t say “We need your money to help our ministry. We reach into 40 million homes a day.” if only 1000 people chose to have them on their list.