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Whar are average subscription and retransmission fees for cable TV?
Someone said to me they would be happy to take off the "over the air"channels from their cable if they could get a $25/month discount on their bill. It would be worth the money to put up an antenna. My guess is that your average basic cable subscription (mine is about 70 HD channels and 40 STD channel) plus 43 music channels. Costs the cable company roughly $25/month in subscription and retransmission fees (per household). I know that ESPN and ESPN2 alone are about $5. Any thoughts? Has anyone ever seen anything in a report?
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- Bill CLv 6il y a 8 ansRéponse favorite
I read recently that the average cost to CableCo is 26 cents per month per channel. So when you figure that ESPN is $5 and CNN is a little over $1, you are getting a ton of nickel and dime channels. Which, of course, leads to the rise of the saying "200 channels and nothing to watch"!
CableCo has the local channels as their base package, and as you move up in tiers, channels are added. SatelliteCo provides the "cable channels" first, with an option to get local channels.
An option you have not mentioned is to cut the cable cord completely! There are very few things you can watch on any cable channel that I do not have the ability to watch myself. My monthly cost for TV is less than $15 (Netflix & Amazon Prime). Of course, I did need to invest in an outdoor antenna and a Home Theater PC, and a few other items, but those are all one-time costs and not recurring monthly bills.
- PoohBearPenguinLv 7il y a 8 ans
I don't think these fees have ever been publicly published because it would be the end of the subscription TV industry as we know it.
What's the biggest request from consumers in the subscription TV industry? Ala carte pricing!
If we knew the prices the providers pay for these channels it would pretty much force them to start giving us better deals or deal with more and more customers walking away.
