AMC Aims at Skinny Bundles in Cable Carriage Fight

Wall Street Journal: As if TV carriage negotiations haven’t become contentious enough, a new wrinkle is adding to the complexity: the rise of skinny bundles and “cord-shaving.” In a brewing spat, AMC Networks is demanding that the National Cable Television Cooperative, a consortium of small cable providers, pay on behalf of all its subscribers — whether or not they actually receive AMC and its sister channels in their cable packages.