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Apple's over-the-top television service put on hold, says Les Moonves [u]
An interesting development from Verizon Fios skinny bundles that Disney balked at over ESPN (the $55 for a base +2 extra packs) that they expected people to buy 3 packs.rogifan_old said:I don't really see any advantage to skinny bundles until people are able to select channels ala carte and build their own bundle. I can guarantee you some of the channels I watch most frequently would never be part of an Apple skinny bundle. but no doubt ESPN would have to be there whether you're interested in sports or not.
They did not, and a surprising amount (to them) of people left out the sports pack - the one containing ESPN.
No wonder Disney balked. No more cash cow.
I'd still like to move past this paradigm of "channels." If a studio creates a good piece of work, I'll watch it. I'd gladly pay $$ to have access to find these without the hassle of having to hunt through some ungodly number of channels just to find it. Especially with the number of channels each broadcasting group owns. How do we have 500 channels when there are only 10-15 companies who own them? It just clutters everything up on our end.
