In regards to cable cos. moving channels to digital, Cox has the city of Fort Smith and many others in a tizzy this week when they announced that they plan to move all religious programming to digital cable.
They claim they will be able to offer even more religious programming once the change is complete, but that forces you to cough up another approx $10 a month for a digital cable box if you still want to receive religious programming...
welcome to the dish work buddy. if you gave dish or direct tv you have to pay a 5 dollar programing accress fee.
No, you don't get it. Comcast already charges people for "basic" cable. Now they switch channels to digital, move them up into another pay package, and tell consumers "Tough crap, if you want to see that channel ever again you need to cought up more $$$."
The Dish programming access fee is if you're NOT subscribed to any plan. -- "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini