Re: Mergers and Net Neutrality
$1 a month for ESPN? At least a year since I did any reading on the subject but at the time ESPN was the single biggest cost of any basic cable package and was $6-8 per subscriber.
I'm against the mergers on principal as the end result will be to screw the consumer but the networks complaining about not being able to fairly negotiate carriage fees are a case of pot calling the kettle black. People don't want the stupid expensive bundles they are forced to take the sooner À la carte packages are available the better. It's for this reason the networks are so scared their contracts are going to be available for all to read, can't have people finding out how screwed over they are. This would seriously hurt the likes of Disney and ESPN so is likely to take a change in the law to come about.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
