Business Week broke down the confusing
bundled cable model in a recent article. Business Week did a good job at showing how and why cable channels are offered the way they are.
With constant customer confusion over why consumers can't just pick and choose the individual channels they want (also known as "a la carte") this explains how channels are packaged from programmers and delivered to the cable companies.
"But their anger toward their pay-TV operator may be misplaced."
For the full Business Week article,
click here.