It is curious how the option of unbundling so that...

2009-11-23T13:49:22.700-05:00

It is curious how the option of unbundling so that the consumer can choose what he wants to pay for has had very little discussion. I have written suggesting this (and that, in return, I would be willing to pay for local programming) to both the Globe and the Star and neither has published my letter. Do they both have connections to cable or satellite companies?

I agree with your 4 points. For decades the Cab...

2009-11-23T09:56:27.184-05:00

I agree with your 4 points.

For decades the Cable TV companies have been resisting your point #2. Charge per channel and let consumers assemble their own a la carte bundles. It is what I want.

The CRTC is complicit in this resistance to your point #2. They have analyzed that new channels will not get off the ground unless they piggyback on more established and popular channels.

So, it comes back to the same back and forth that is the core of the discussion about the current recession: capitalists are all for the free-market system until they stop making exhorbitant profits and then they are all for government intervention, bailouts and regulation that the consumer should pay or the consumer should pay more. I would not mind at all letting the free market determine the outcome of this Network / Cable company war of words. At the very least, it would "clear the decks" a little.

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It is curious how the option of unbundling so that...

I agree with your 4 points. For decades the Cab...