DirecTV USED TO do a very bastardized version of a la carte TV. However, they made it so that the channel bundles were so ridiculously cheap compared to individual channels, that you really had no choice but to buy the bundles or fork over the same amount for a single channel.
Trust me, they CAN do a la carte, but most providers don’t want to knowing full well that a majority of subscribers would pick from a small subset of channels. In addition, the liberal media would be in an absolute tizzy when they realized that no one was watching them and everyone was watching FNC, History, TCM, A&E, TBS, USA, TNT, etc.
And don’t forget PBS. Do you HONESTLY believe people would voluntarily pick to have PBS in their lineup?
Sounds like we need to take a page from the liberal handbook and get Congress to force ala carte!