"pay for subscription" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a fee paid to access a service or content on a regular basis, such as a magazine subscription. For example, "I decided to pay for the subscription to get access to the exclusive content."
In the other, customers can pay for subscription services, where they receive the content of a certain premium channel, like HBO, whenever they want.
This runs counter to traditional sports broadcasting where rights are charged and consumer must pay for subscription access, usually via satellite or cable channels.
Ilse Howling, the Freeview managing director, said she expected the HD battle to resemble the rivalry with Sky when the DTT service first launched in 2002, with the latter attracting viewers who did not want to pay for subscription TV.
Asking national consortia to pay for subscription fees and for open-access publication "can be quite expensive for countries like Germany with a large research output", says von Hindenburg.
Isn't that why I pay for subscription?
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HealtheonWebMD has lined up sponsors, including DuPont and Microsoft, to pay for subscriptions for physicians.
Cash, rather than cordwood and vegetables, pay for subscriptions, but the old intimate touch with the reader is unbroken.
Spotify says it has at least 89 million regular users around the world, including 30 million who pay for subscriptions.
After all, as he points out, HBO already thrives there because viewers have shown a willingness to pay for subscriptions for always-on access to "True Blood" and "Entourage".
After a decade, the start-up from Sweden has proved itself a worthy adversary, with 157 million users around the world, 71 million of whom pay for subscriptions.
