Video's Days in Cable Bundle Could Be Numbered, Says CCG President

Cable operators won't easily get out of the bundle business, and it won't be until they drop the penalty for canceling video service -- where the price for remaining services in subscribers' bundles go up -- that it's clear they're serious about it, CCG President Doug Dawson blogged Friday. He said the service bundle is likely eventually doomed because profit margins for video are nothing or even negative, due to both programming costs and operational expenses such as service calls to deal with customer complaints about such issues as picture quality.