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Re:Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Con... by joezydeco on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:19AM (#13462720)
As bad as bundling is, it also has historically subsidized smaller channels that sometimes come up with innovative programming that would otherwise never happen.

Everyone passed on Mad Men except this little movie-rerun channel called AMC. Would Walking Dead have happened without it?

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Re:Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Con... by CaptSpify on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:52AM (#13463557)
Sucks to be them. Sorry, but why should I subsidize channels that nobody wants to watch? Sure, occasionally a hit will come out of them, but if a channel can't stay afloat on their own, too bad so sad!
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Re:Netflix Earnings Are Driven by Investment in Original Con... by nikdaheratik on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @12:59AM (#13469144)
Well the vast majority of the money from bundling goes to ESPN. If you don't like sports, or only watch during one kind of sports season, then much of the money from cable is a waste.
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