Anyone who has a TV and is subscribing to cable or satellite is already paying too much. Sports is the primary reason why cable and satellite TV bills are so damned high. All sports, including Fox Sports 1 and 2 and ESPN, MLB Network, NFL Network and all the rest should be unbundled from the basic package and stuck in a sports only tier so that that yahoos who actually watch that mindless nonsense can pay for it.
They should be a premium channels tier. Those who want to watch sports can pay for them. I think that’s only fair.
I would love that. Sports to me is a waste of good bandwidth.
Years ago when I was working at a public TV network, there was a hue and cry from the local high priest of freelance big buck sports that was our dept.head to watch more sports to get a better idea on how to do replays and the like. I said something along those lines to him. That didn’t go over very well. I didn’t care since I held a trump card that could have gotten him sued with him being the (non) friend of the veteran and such.
At the time the high priest and the other connected minions who were in the clique making big side money loved to lord over us little people.
The main way it was done was with the financial disaster of endless jr. high, high school, and no-name college team sports. All it did was funnel money to their buddies and ruin weekends for us making the piddly state job money. One of the lies that I didn’t buy that others did is that would be a good way to get in to the good money. A few of us sensible people knew getting in was by invitation only and I did everything I could to no go on those remotes. For the most part I succeeded. In the end I was proven right since the cliques hadn’t changed one iota.
I agree.
But when the sports fans are left on their own to pay for those channels, the price will go sky-high. 'Cuz the rest of us who don't give a damn will no longer have to subsidize them.
The "à la carte" crowd might best think hard about what they're wishing for.