A Cable Customer
Actually, Mike D. has not become a cable customer. He would, though, if there was cable a la carte. The ESPNs, Comedy Central, and the Sam-Waterston-looks-like-a-Muppet network would be all he needs. (TNT’s business model, as it only runs ads for The Closer, is the corporate equivalent of a perpetual motion machine.)
Right now he Hulus everything except for NBA League Pass Broadband, which is the best single investment any basketball fan could make and makes him happier than human contact ever has.
Why am I bringing this up? Why am I suddenly shifting to the first person? Because I just read a nice bit in a NYT blog called Bits that talks about the future of cable and their current business model. Read it here and dream of the day we don’t have to pay for Nancy Grace and American Chopper if we occasionally want to watch darts on ESPN2.
H/T: Snarkmarket.
