Simple outlaw carriage contracts as restraint of free trade. They broke up MA Bell.
Dutch_12078 wrote:
Part of the problem with the packaging of TV channels is that channel owners can and do dictate which packages they want their channels included in when negotiating carriage contracts. Multi-channel owners often try to force the carriers to include lesser watched channels along with their more popular channels in a given package. Carriage contracts are also why we'll likely never see a true ala-carte system where we can choose only those channels we want.