The reason is that unmoored from the cable bundle, individual networks would have to charge vastly more money per subscriber.
Artists Georgia Bosson and Cecily Vessey have also found that working together has increased their individual networks substantially.
Mr. Bush said that he also wanted to do two 60-minute debates sponsored by individual networks, an arrangement that would almost certainly shrink the television audience.
That's most obvious on smartphones and tablets, where YouTube, Netflix, BBC iPlayer and apps from individual networks such as HBO may sit side-by-side as homescreen icons.
The growth of membership and of individual networks seems impervious to gaffes at the company during its brief, five-year history.
Senior advisers to Gov. George W. Bush met here today with representatives from three television networks to discuss presidential debates that individual networks have proposed.
For example, some individual networks made bad calls on the 1964 Goldwater/Rockefeller primary.
Shapiro will not comment until that investigation and separate investigations at the individual networks are complete.
Why subscribe to a cable bundle when you can stream individual networks and shows?
The add-ons are actually small bundles of channels instead of individual networks.
The question, though, is what role do these individual networks play in future projects?
