 madylarianThe curmudgeonlyPremium
join:2002-01-03
Parkville, MD | There's no accounting for taste And that means having a large number of channels to suit the tastes of as many people as possible. This whole brouhaha is just another attempt by certain segments of the population to control what we watch. If you don't want to watch a channel, don't watch it. Wait, you don't want to pay for channels you don't watch? And you think that you're not paying for unwatched channels on commercial broadcast TV? Well, guess again. You're paying bigtime. The largest chunk of the cost of everything advertised on commercial TV, even the channels you never watch, is marketing. So you're paying for it every time you buy that product.
I say let those clamoring for this stupidity pay $10 per channel ala carte and let the rest of us take advantage of the bulk discount.
Btw, as others have pointed out but seems to have been missed, the ones who decide how many channels are offered are not the networks, but the large corporations that create the programming. It's Disney who says you have to broadcast 5 ESPN and 3 ABC channels to just get the Disney channel.
mady
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