Ex-Montreal Girl
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I can't answer. That's the spousal unit's department.
Still, à la carte costs on top of the mandated skinny basic could be greater than those for the existing multi-channel bundles and some have questioned whether a pick-and-pay regime will result in lower overall prices for television services.
For big distributors, the changes could be neutral to operating earnings if individual channel prices can offset lower revenue from TV services, Barclays analyst Phillip Huang said in a note referring to Cogeco Cable.
Research commissioned by advocacy groups and media unions, meanwhile, forecasts as many as 7,000 direct job losses as a result of the new rules, but the CRTC says the analysis is based on an assumption that 40 per cent of specialty channels will fail, which is says overstates the case.