re: Sling TV Releases Sports Package - $5 Per Month

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it would be a bigger ripoff if you paid a la carte. You'd pay way more per channel, and the stations would make less money. That means shows you like on AMC like Breaking Bad would have a much smaller budget.

When the costs are spread over 90 to 100 million people, it's cheaper for everybody per channel.

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this unfortunately is the truth. everyone bitches about the current cable format, but if you think about all the channels you watch, espn, nfl network, tnt, mlb network, fox sports, etc that if you paid $10-20 a month a la carte, it would easily eclipse your current cable bill. additionally, a lot of the original programming on channels like AMC wouldn't exist, or would be vastly different.