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from the now-we-can-have-our-cake-and-eat-it-too dept.
Verizon is the first cable provider to take a step toward the a-la carte cable the entire industry is being forced into.
Fox Sports and ESPN claim that Verizon FiOS is violating programming contracts by relegating sports channels to optional TV bundles, but Verizon has pressed ahead with its new bundles anyway.
Verizon's Custom TV bundles, which became available two days ago, let FiOS customers buy a basic cable TV package with or without sports channels. With Custom TV, customers get 34 channels plus the choice of two channel packs. ESPN, Fox Sports, and other sports channels are available in the sports-themed packs, so customers don't have to pay anything extra to get them. However, customers could instead choose other channel packs, such as lifestyle or pop culture, and avoid the sports channels altogether.
These days sports are cited as the last bastion of the traditional cable industry, but if a-la carte sinks cable ESPN and sports content providers may have no choice but to go along.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 23 2015, @05:47PM
> Go full a-la carte and
> ...completely drop cable TV.
That's the only reason cable is even considering going alacarte. The industry have been talking about it for over a generation, but it took netflix, hulu and youtube to make even a half-assed version happen.
Also, subject lines are alacarte too, it is rude and disrespectful to make them part of the first sentence of your post. It is a fucking pain in the ass to quote them in response, so fuck you very much.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday April 24 2015, @12:00AM
Noted. I won't do that anymore.
I was not aware doing it was offensive.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Informative) by deimtee on Friday April 24 2015, @02:32AM
up the flow of the writing and sometimes the fragments
Noted. I won't do that anymore.
I was not aware doing it was offensive.
almost make sense so you waste time wondering what the hell the poster was trying to say.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday April 24 2015, @03:33AM
What you just showed me makes a lot of sense.
I feel like when I was told I had my shirt on inside out... and he was right.
That example drove the point home quite nicely.
Sorry, fellas, for doing this.
Thanks for correcting me.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]