McCain breaks out of 6 year HP slump with FF bill

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Er... this is a horrible idea and would destroy television, basically. Right now the sh[inks]tty channels are basically subsidizing the good, niche ones. Without bundling, those niche channels would quickly go out of business and consumer choice would plummet.

That or it would be prohibitively expensive, to the point that you end up paying about the same as you're paying for cable now but getting many fewer channels as a result. And it would basically be impossible for new channels to ever come into existence without bundling.

This is one of those policies that sounds great, but in reality it would be a huge failure.

edit: These are both good ideas though:

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What this also means is that it really doesn't cost any more to deliver every channel to every customer rather than allowing people to pick and choose. So the typical cable consumer, at least, will find himself or herself paying about as much as she had before for a reduced quantity of programming.

Yeah, exactly. If you're someone who buys a few hundred channel cable package right for like $80 per month, but you only watch like three channels, you've already shown that just those three channels have a subjective value of $80 per month to you. No one is going to save any money under this scheme; you'll be paying the same amount but receiving many, many fewer channels for it.

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Er... this is a horrible idea and would destroy television, basically. Right now the sh[inks]tty channels are basically subsidizing the good, niche ones. Without bundling, those niche channels would quickly go out of business and consumer choice would plummet.

That or it would be prohibitively expensive, to the point that you end up paying about the same as you're paying for cable now but getting many fewer channels as a result. And it would basically be impossible for new channels to ever come into existence without bundling.

This is one of those policies that sounds great, but in reality it would be a huge failure.

edit: These are both good ideas though:

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Why should the industry be saved? Are there a lot of union jobs at stake? I'm pretty certain most of revenue/profits end up in capitalist hands in this industry.

Uh... yeah most people who work on TV shows are unionized. AFTRA, Writers Guild of America, IATSE, Teamsters, etc.