FCC says cable TV a la carte wouldn't cut subscriber bills.

Publication: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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Byline: Vikas Bajaj

Nov. 20--The ability to buy cable-TV service a channel at a time, rather than bundled by dozens, may cost most families more, not less, money, the Federal Communications Commission concluded in a report released Friday.

Most Americans watch too many TV channels for government-imposed a la carte pricing to reduce rising cable rates, the FCC told Congress, which has been considering such regulations.

Consumer and parents' groups blasted the FCC study, saying it skewed the results in favor of the nation's large cable companies.

Cable and satellite-TV companies, which have long argued that regulations would only increase rates,...

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