<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div id="BB10_response_div" style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Recently, the government of Canada has vowed to bring in a-la-carte cable. No one is yet certain how this will look, but it will be interesting to watch and if successful, might be an additional argument to use.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif">Myself, I cut the cord 2 years ago; streaming and OTA and I'm quite happy. <br></font><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Most of the big channels don't live off the revenue generated by cable suppliers, which is very little in comparison to commercial slots.</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Not sure how this will affect specialty niche stations, like the aboriginal network up here. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Time will tell. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td id="_persistentHeaderContainer" colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Eric Sharkey</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, November 4, 2013 5:35 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>Discussion about MythTV</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>Discussion about MythTV</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] All clear QAMs gone in Portland, OR</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div id="_persistentHeaderEnd" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Joseph Fry <joe@thefrys.com> wrote:<br>> Ala-Carte doesn't mean that there won't still be bundles, or<br>> incentives to take channels you wouldn't typically buy.<br><br>This is more or less what I was alluding to with the phrase "flexible<br>volume discounts" but this kind of flexibility is really complicated<br>when you think about how you would actually implement it and explain<br>it to average customers. Does the carrier pay different fees to the<br>channels depending on which bundle the user is in? If so, why should<br>a news channel effectively give a discount if the user will also<br>subscribe to a competitor's channel?<br><br>Eric<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br>mythtv-users@mythtv.org<br>http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users<br></div></body></html>