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RadioDoc
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Re: Figures don't lie but you can lie with figures......

If you get 15 premium channels for $84 you're stealing the service...or know someone at Time Warner.

The only bang any cable customer is getting is the one from behind, as they are bent over.

The NCTA is the cable industry equivalent of the RIAA. They represent both the MSOs and the program suppliers. There is no incentive for them to ever even consider lowering the costs and (*gasp*) the rates charged. So, they just artificially jack up the "costs" while winking in the general direction of Congress.
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Re: Figures don't lie but you can lie with figures......

said by RadioDoc See Profile :

The NCTA is the cable industry equivalent of the RIAA. They represent both the MSOs and the program suppliers.
That, of course, is largely because the MSOs have their hands in networks... (This is most obvious with Time Warner, but Comcast and most of the other big MSOs have their hands in programming, too.)

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RadioDoc
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Re: Figures don't lie but you can lie with figures......

Yep, and that's why the usual excuse of "higher program costs" is a shill.
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