Verizon's Cable-TV Bundle Hack Is Too Cheap to Be True

Instead of paying cable-TV providers for a bundle of channels that nobody watches, Verizon wants to reward content owners for the viewers who tune in to each individual station, a plan that should lower costs — yay! — but that the Time Warners and Viacoms of the market aren't likely to adopt. Under this proposed system, Verizon's FiOs operation would shift to an Internet-style model of content compensation, paying networks for "unique visitors," explains The Wall Street Journal's Shalini Ramachandrin. ...



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