Share I wanted to follow up yesterday’s note on cable carriage fees by imagining a model that would determine such fees, at least partly, on the relative amount of audience that a channel attracts. It occurred to me that such a model would be well suited for a digital subscription service, since it could faithfully [...]

Share This past week Time Warner Cable came close to dropping the Fox Network from its system due to a dispute concerning retransmission fees. In case you aren’t aware, cable companies like Time Warner and Comcast pay networks for transmitting their channels on their systems. For broadcast networks that opt out of must-carry regulation these payments are called [...]