They fought this tooth and nail two years ago when somebody in Congress proposed it. The excuse was that it would be too hard to implement, but the open secret is that practically everybody would eliminate two-thirds of their channels.
And breaking out the pricing for sports channels would lay bare how much of the typical cable bill goes directly to overpriced athletes. Nobody in the TV industry wants you to know how much you could save by cancelling ESPN.
ESPN and ESPN2 are two of the channels I would cancel if I could. I don’t watch football, basketball, or hocky and they generally don’t carry Detrot Tiger baseball or NASCAR.