That’s pretty frustrating. I’m on Time-Warner and when I flip through the channels I see LOTS of sports channels, and I watch none of them. I think I watch about ten channels total of all the ones I have to pay for.
Small cable operators are venting in blog posts and in letters to consumers that sports programming fees at ESPN are out of control. They’ve complained that the sports network forces them to take all-or-nothing bundles of ESPN channels, even if their customers aren’t interested in them.
Irony is so ironic. That is exactly what the cable providers do to their customers.