Registration for the subscription only online analysis and research service, Cable U, opens today for those who want to know everything that pertains to 24 hour US cable networks: "the constants of nearly every deal, including: budgets, co-productions, distribution, international sales, legal, pitching, press & punblicity and pricing."

Servicing networks hungry for content with the explosion of world wide cable as well as less vertically integrated organizations or professional looking for centralized information, this site is another example of what I have referred to elsewhere on The Second Sight as efficiency measures arising organically alongside the creative economy, manifested to solve the endemic vagueness around creative financials.  (See Hedgefunds for Hollywood).