Re:And here Slashdot shows its leftist bent (Score 1)

The cable company I work for makes the most revenue from its Internet department so perhaps this isn't all to unfeasible. With the rapid growth of broadband technologies over cable (proprietary technologies through DOCSIS 1.0 and 2.0 service) other providers like mine may be in a similar position. Perhaps if this system was implemented cable companies could be mandated to set some kind of pricing scheme that allows them to give more money to less popular stations than to the mainstream ones. For example Joe Cable Company gets CNN and TechTV on (one popular and not so popular channel) their channel line up. It then charges $2/month for the popular channel and say $0.50/month for the not so popular one. For popular channels that $2/month could be split up and a percentage could be put towards paying networks that provide the less popular channels in order to keep them alive. Cable companies could then be able to implement a per-channel cost system while still giving a percentage of overall profits from mainstream channel sales to non-mainstream ones in order to keep the less popular channels going.