| Of Course "The cable industry continues to insist that allowing customers to pick individual channels "would raise prices for most consumers and harm diversity in programming." Of course the cable industry will also tell you that cable TV prices are dropping when they're constantly rising." How else are they gonna pay their CEOs 30+ million.
I can think of a handfull of channels i Like. Direct TV raised their prices by $10 a month. I remember the good old days where we used an antenna and watched tv for free. |
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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | said by Cysco24 :
I remember the good old days where we used an antenna and watched tv for free.
We still use our outside antenna, it is a choice we made since the other services are about paying for what you do not want to support, like overpriced sports channels that have to keep jacking rates to pay for inflated sports salaries.
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1 edit | Another solution would just make all sports channels a separate package. ESPN 1=infinity, YES, MSG, etc. Let those folks pay for their precious sports and see how much our cable bill goes down  .
All the games that people want to watch can be had on 2-13 in HD anyway. Who wants to watch a game from the 1950's, or a Curling Tournament? Let alone those god awful card tournaments that are now the big fad.
edit - A Salary cap of $2 million a year should also be more than enough for players and CEO's. No one should need more than that in their lifetime. |
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| said by TurtleFan:Another solution would just make all sports channels a separate package. ESPN 1=infinity, YES, MSG, etc. Let those folks pay for their precious sports and see how much our cable bill goes down . If only it were that easy, then "a la carte" would be a reality. But ESPN and the NFL Network require payments from cable companies for the number of subscribers to the basic cable tier that includes the channel, and will not allow their channels to be in Sports Tiers.
The FCC really needs to be taking up their "a la carte" business with the channels, and not with the cable companies.
Cable companies don't want to have to pay for every subscriber to get ESPN and NFL Network, but they're forced to, or they don't get the channel at all. Then their customers go to satellite to get their sports channels. |
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