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Even the networks are bundling

I see things a bit different than most. Once upon a time there was a channel dial. Only so many stations could possibly exist on it, period. This caused stations to provide the best content or be passed by. There was no retrans, no ESPN, no Disney Channel. We had networks.

Now when a company like CBS sees revenues slipping, they add another cable channel to their list, and push it down the throats of the cable companies with "incentives" to carry it.

Next thing you know it is bundled year after year into your contract to retransmit their content and the content itself is lack-luster.

I think all those cable channels are a weapon to force local cable companies to pay ransome. In turn, we get the bill.

End bundling on the network side, watch all those extra junk channels go away, and watch people have a choice again. Make network bundles illegal!