Home video writer Phillip Swann has a great editorial up that talks about why buying cable channels individually is a terrible idea
“McCain, and other lawmakers who favor the a la carte approach, don’t seem to understand that cable TV’s entire revenue model is based on packaging channels rather than selling them individually. Viewers who now pay $20-$30 a month for a package of 25 or 30 channels might spend half that under the a la carte plan, ordering just a few favorites at $2-3 each.
“When I go to the grocery store to buy a quart of milk, I don’t have to buy a package of celery and a bunch of broccoli,” McCain said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I don’t like broccoli.”"
While I do not like paying a ton of money for channels I do not watch, Philip points out that smaller cable channels will go dry if no one iss watching them. And who pays for a channel they have never heard of? Few if any. This article is worth a few minutes of your time.
