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Originally Posted by GGG
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. |
This is good info, thanks for sharing.
So if TSN (presumably just the main channel) costs a company like Shaw $2.50 a month, the 2.25 factor would put it up to $5.75-$6.00. But you pointed that Sportsnet World costs $17. I would think that to get the TSN 1-5 might cost a little less than $17, considering most of the time the feeds show the same content. $15 maybe? And maybe we could see the Sportsnet / Sportsnet 1 / Sportsnet 360 channels offered together for about $15 as well.
Throw in an AMC, an HBO, and maybe something like FX or Showtime, and that might be another $20-$30.
Add those to the skinny bundle that must be offered (hopefully this includes some US networks), and I could see something like an $85-$95 cable bill for just picking only the channels I want. This is opposed to a $53 bill now for the minimum Personal TV from Shaw, + Sports1 bundle (which gets me TS2 and Sportsnet 360), but doesn't include the premium channels. If I threw in HBO and AMC under the current billing, the bill would jump from $53 to $106, as it doesn't look like AMC is available on its own but as part of a 46 channel "Best of HD" bundle for $35.
Hmmm.