Nobody has mentioned the other side (Score 1)

Nobody has mentioned the other side, where the cable companies can charge more because things are packaged. On the backend companies can go to their addvertising accounts and say something like "pay us more for our awesumly bad commercials because you have a market base of millions. If you were just a nuche market you would only have a fraction of that and we couldn't justify carrying your signal."

They get you both ways.