Cable is dead. Long live the cable bundle. Curious to see the pricing and if the bundle only includes ad tiered options.

  • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Bundling is only cheaper if I actually want all of the bundled things, but that’s not how companies like Comcast bundle things.

    • Copernican@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      Bundling works at scale if you maximize customer pool. I don’t think ESPN cable would be affordable to most people without bundling it into cable packages; their TV is subsidized by every non sports watching household. I wish there was more transparency into the costs to determine if you are coming ahead or behind in the bundling.

      But at the end of the day everyone hates paying for multiple streaming apps. To me that means people just want a bundle that magically has everything they want to watch.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t think ESPN cable would be affordable to most people without bundling it into cable packages

        Then it’s not a viable network.

        their TV is subsidized by every non sports watching household.

        But that’s exactly why people started ditching cable in the first place. They wouldn’t be bundling ESPN with non-sports channels, they would bundle other less popular sports channels with ESPN so they can jack up the price because ESPN. But ESPN doesn’t carry the sports I follow, and I can’t get the network that does without paying double because it’s in a bundle with ESPN.