Jan 29, 2013
To those among you who have been hoping for an à-la-carte subscription plan from your cable company so, you can pay for only the channels you watch without having to buy into a channel tier, or set of channel tiers; YouTube may be aiming for the same goal. From the linked article: "CEO Salar Kamangar talked on stage about the potential to poach second- or third-tier cable networks that were having trouble building big enough audiences on cable TV to command subscription fees from distributors. Internet distribution, the thinking goes, would give some of these networks a more direct line to their passionate base with lower costs."