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Originally Posted by ken0042
You nailed it, GGG. I have heard the argument of:
- I currently pay $100 per month for 100 channels.
- I only watch 5 of those channels.
- Therefore I should be able to get my 5 channels per month for $5.
Of course a lot of people here seem to understand that the cost per channel may be higher than that, but I can't see my example above coming in any lower than $40 per month.
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If those channels are HBO and the premium Sports channels I suspect that you'd end up a lot closer to that $100 number.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...says-1.2753436
HGTV earns approximately $1.90 a year per subscriber, or $0.16 per month. Showcase gets $3.50 per year, or $0.29 per month.
TSN gets $30 per year, or $2.50 per month.
Movie Central and Movie Network — which distributes HBO Canada — earn more than $8 per month.
The above is an old article but has some numbers to work with for a discussion. Keeping in mind that this is the cost to Shaw and not the cost to Shaws customers and its unclear if that is all tsn or just TSN 1. You can use the HBO number as a guide shaw charges roughly 2.25 times to the customer then it is paying the Channel.
So with the 40 odd channels you don't want being worth between 16 cents and 50 cents at max you get $20 in savings which get quickly eaten up by households who dump the sports channels.
Shaw charges $17 per month for sportsnet world so I suspect it would be similar for TSN and Sportsnet channels with maybe is discount when you add East and or TSN 2,3,4,5.