Just like the South African Consumer Commission's misguided, wrongly filed and completely botched compliance notice earlier this year to MultiChoice and On Digital Media (ODM) regarding so-called "channel bundling" which it eventually had to retract, the Supreme Court is America has tossed a class action suit brought by pay-TV subscribers over "channel bundling".
In a one-line rejection, first reported by Broadcasting & Cable the United States Supreme Court threw out the case which was brought by satellite TV subscribers complaining that pay-TV operators are forcing them to buy packages in which they can't choose individual TV channels - the so-called theoretical "a la carte model". The law suit alleged that so-called "channel bundling" violates antitrust laws.
In the court case, the class action suit wanted to force pay-TV operators, programmers and distributors of television in America to sell single TV channels on a monthly subscription basis to subscribers even though the pay-TV model doesn't work that way.
Earlier this year in March America's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals also dismissed the class action law suit, saying the claim isn't plausible. After then wanting the Supreme Court to review the finding and hear the case, the Supreme Court has now refused.
