Charter Chief Sees À La Carte Looming

CHARTER CHIEF SEES A LA CARTE LOOMING
[SOURCE: Broadcasting&Cable, AUTHOR: John Eggerton]
Charter Communications President Neil Smit says he believes some form of à la carte service is coming, so he advises the industry, rather than Washington, to come up with a plan. "Something will happen," he told an audience of cable marketers at a Cable Television Public Affairs Association convention panel session in Washington Monday. He didn't know whether it would come from Washington or the industry, but said he preferred the latter. He pointed to the fact that the industry was getting it from the right and left on the issue of unbundling its service and selling individual channels to consumers, with indecency driving calls from conservatives for more content control, and from liberals calling for more value and choice.
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