| reply to TurtleFan
Re: Of Course 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. |
