I work for a small cable provider. When I started here and learned the industry I found that the cable companies only make a small profit on programming. The big winners are the networks themselves meaning that iptv is going to run into the same problem as cable. Hardly anyone know this but stations like ESPN make it almost impossible to just carry one of their stations. You have to pay for ESPN, news, II, and Classic because the cost is unbelievable to just carry the parent station. NBC does the same thing with all of its stations. So before you go off on cable might want to look into the guys providing the content not just the access.