Comments on: A La Carte Cable vs. Bundling Nonsense

By: Roger Goff

Roger Goff — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:46:15 +0000

There are additional winners in the long run. Much of the niche cable programming that currently rides the coat tails of the more popular networks would be driven off of cable and onto the Web. This would actually increase the quality of online programming and facilitate the growth of the digital media industry. That would benefit technology companies, as well as online networks, advertising companies and other online players. In fact, Google should be lobbying hard for this proposal!

By: Roger Goff

Roger Goff — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:46:15 +0000

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:07:31 +0000

You’re 100% right. For some reason, the press has aligned itself with the cable industry’s effort to keep on fleecing customers.

Cable companies should be leasing their pipeline to consumers and let the consumers order through them from the channel providers. This would create a true market where pricing would reflect actual demand and where most channels would be free or really, really cheap.

There would also be nothing to prevent Fox (as an example) from offering a bundle of all of its channels if it so desired. Consumers would be free to take it or leave it.

By: Rena Moretti

Rena Moretti — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:07:31 +0000

You're 100% right. For some reason, the press has aligned itself with the cable industry's effort to keep on fleecing customers.

Cable companies should be leasing their pipeline to consumers and let the consumers order through them from the channel providers. This would create a true market where pricing would reflect actual demand and where most channels would be free or really, really cheap.

There would also be nothing to prevent Fox (as an example) from offering a bundle of all of its channels if it so desired. Consumers would be free to take it or leave it.