PaulHikeS2
join:2003-03-06
Merrimack, NH
| reply to bugabuga
Re: As usual
said by bugabuga  :For example I don't want to subsidise five shopping channels and five religious channels. I realize this is just a small portion of your point, but you don't subsidize them. Those channels actually pay the provider for carriage. In effect, they subsidize your bill.
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| said by PaulHikeS2 :I realize this is just a small portion of your point, but you don't subsidize them. Those channels actually pay the provider for carriage. In effect, they subsidize your bill. bzzzzzzt! wrong answer. Every time cable bills go up, the cablecos blame it on the increased cost of programming.
if Disney jacks up the rate of their new "bundle" because it includes a program nobody wants to watch, the cost gets passed straight on to you know who.
in the DC area, the comcast sports network was refusing to carry the Nationals games because 1) transmission rights were owned by another group (the real reason they bitched) and 2) they claimed they would have to raise rates (the truth? who knows). The pressure was too much, comcast caved, then promptly added $1.50 to every local customers bill.
no subsidizing going on for us, we're the marks in this carnival. |
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PaulHikeS2
join:2003-03-06
Merrimack, NH | You apparently didn't read the post. It was referring to shopping and religious channels only.
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hottboiinnc
Kyle
join:2003-10-15
Toledo, OH | You don't pay for the shopping networks. THEY pay the cable companies to be carried. |
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