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Cable A La Carte Is Becoming a Reality -- Outside the U.S.
- Wary of Netflix, Viacom, Disney offer more programs online
- With less pay-TV penetration, foreign markets are up for grabs
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If you want to watch the Disney Channel or BET in the U.S., you pretty much need a costly pay-TV plan, one with hundreds of networks you couldn’t care less about. In other countries, it’s increasingly a different story.
Entertainment companies led by Viacom Inc., 21st Century Fox Inc. and Walt Disney Co. are forging ahead internationally with online offerings of popular cable fare, even as their U.S. viewers remain tethered to pay-TV services from Comcast Corp. or DirecTV.