Released: April 03, 2009

Breaking the cable company’s bundles

Source: Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post (Free Registration)

Remember those simpler, happier days when you could summarize your television viewing as “57 channels and nothing on”?

If you don’t, no need to worry—there’s probably a documentary about it airing on one of the three history-themed channels your TV provider just added to your service.

Usually, choice is good and more choice is better. But the subscription-TV business seems determined to push this idea to an absurd extreme. As providers add ever more channels to their standard service packages—a feat cable operators touted last week at their annual convention, the Cable Show, in the District—their monthly rates keep rising and the relevance of these bundles keeps dropping.

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