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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 665321, member: 289"] I've heard that the producers of "niche" programming would rather be part of a cable system which needs their program to fill one of those 1995 slots. I've never understood why the market can't work here. If you are doing say, "The Ballet Channel" and know you aren't going to have the fan base of "The Wrestling Channel", in a open market you can find out how much ballet fans would be willing to pay for your channel, (especially if they aren't having to pay for The Wrestling Channel and 1980 or so other things they don't watch). The way it is, the owner of the cable company can decide they's rather put The Wrestling Channel I, II, II, HD, "Classic", etc. rather than your channel because you don't have enough fans, according to their surveys. [/QUOTE]