This is interesting from Canada where the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ordered cable providers to offer a pick & pay TV service.
http://www.crtc.gc.ca/pubs/pick&pay_infographic_ENG.pdf
So the basic package costs $25 Canadian dollars per month (£15.00). Bell Canada have been one of the first companies to fully embrace a la carte and are charging between $4 and $7 Canadian dollars per additional channel (£2.40 and £4.20). Customers can however choose to add 10 channels for $20 Canadian dollars (£12.00).
http://www.bell.ca/Fibe-TV/Fibe-Prog...icon-container
Here's some info on what the other Canadian cable companies are planning to offer and charge:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...ticle28951724/
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission have been flooded with complaints since the launch of the service. Whilst they ordered this a la carte style TV service they did not set out what prices cable companies should be charging for individual channels. Most consumers are finding the new service, when adding just the channels they want, more expensive than their previous bundled TV. Consumers are also complaining that some cable companies are tying the basic "Skinny basic TV package" to expensive broadband and phoneline rental packages. There's also been leaked memo's from some of the cable companies showing customer service staff have been advised to talk the service down and attempt to migrate customers enquiring about the service onto other more expensive packages.
Still very early to say how things are going to pan out as the service isn't fully implemented until December. It's a good idea by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission but it's clearly open to abuse. They would really need to set a must pay price for individual channels other wise cable companies could simply over price the channels effectively strangling the service from birth.