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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 4749556, member: 1452"]
Based on the reading I've done on this, Spectrum standing its ground is a good thing.

The content distributors have held the upper hand for years in this relationship.

This is why you have to pay for a gazillion channels that you don't watch.

The content distributors, like Disney, have insisted on that approach so they get paid, effectively, by both those who watch channels and those who don't.

Companies, like Charter, now make very little money on cable so they have reached the point where resisting is no longer economic suicide the way it used to be as they make most of their money from broadband.

I believe that, if Charter does win, then there is the possibility that more customized bundles will be available that will allow the consumer to choose, and only pay for, more of the channels he\she wants to watch rather than having to choose from a few large bundles where the consumer could care less about 95% of the channels in the bundle.

For example, if I could just pay for a bundle that included local channels, Bloomberg TV and the sports channels, I think that would cover 95+% of the channels that we watch.

I only watch sports and Bloomberg TV on cable and my wife watches whatever shows she watches on ABC CBS & NBC.

We almost never watch any other channel.  Maybe the weather channel during a hurricane and TBS, TNT and TruTV during the NCAA tournament.  For everything else, we are streaming.

I should be able to get that package for $50 (? - I do not know what cable pays for each sports channel to the content distributor) a month.
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