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Fantasy Cable TV (If you could save by paying $1 per channel what package would you pick on TV ?)

Posted on 11/28/2005 11:00:45 PM PST by april15Bendovr

Create your own fantasy cable TV package and imagine you only have to pay one dollar per TV channel.

Even if I only had to pay only $15 for basic service and had

1. Fox News

2. Discovery Channel

3. History Channel

4. The Learning Channel

5. Sci Fi Channel

For $20 dollars a month I would be very happy.

Sometimes other than watching Fox News I feel I am supporting the Moveon.org cable company

I dont care for the rest of the liberal dribble on the other channels. This is all I want.


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To: april15Bendovr
>If you could save by paying $1 per channel what package would you pick on TV ?



I think if I could
get The Tennis Channel then
that's all I would watch . . .

21 posted on 11/29/2005 11:13:53 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: Fierce Allegiance
You want ESPN2 and not regular ESPN?

SD

22 posted on 11/29/2005 11:14:44 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

I am not watcching college basketball or sportscenter. ESPN 2 has good stuff like x-games and other sick stuff. I'd take it if it were thrown in as part of a package, but this whole thread is devoted to anti-package thought.


23 posted on 11/29/2005 11:16:17 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Posts by Fierce Allegiance are copyright © 2005. Reuse without permission subject to $250 fee/ word)
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To: april15Bendovr

I agree with your list, except for TLC. The Learning Channel has become nothing more than a channel to parade endless "home improvement" and cooking shows, with the occasional live operation. There are hardly any good, science programs on it anymore. I'd replace it with USA network. Although, that's started to go downhill now since they started showing Law & Order: Criminial Intent all the time. I hate that show.

I'd also add TBS and TNT, not to mention the Encore network of movie channels. And the Science channel along with my local Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates. I like to watch local news sometimes. The Spike channel too.

So, if I count correctly, that'd be $12 a month. I could live with that.


24 posted on 11/29/2005 11:16:54 AM PST by FourtySeven (47)
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To: april15Bendovr


Cable urged to unbundle TV( A problem for CNN? Maybe )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530621/posts


25 posted on 11/29/2005 11:18:30 AM PST by Rakkasan1 (Peace de Resistance! Viva la Paper towels!)
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To: Fierce Allegiance
I am not watcching college basketball or sportscenter. ESPN 2 has good stuff like x-games and other sick stuff.

OK. I'd have them both for football.

SD

26 posted on 11/29/2005 11:19:17 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: april15Bendovr

The point is that the cable company pays to provide you with the infrastructure to send you the channels. What channels you actually view is irrelevant. Their costs would be similar if they gave you only one channel. It makes no more sense than telling the phone company you don't pay for the ability to call the 270 million phone customers that you've never met.


27 posted on 11/29/2005 11:22:28 AM PST by dangus
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To: april15Bendovr

Here is the news story

A la carte pricing urged for cable TV

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1530642/posts


28 posted on 11/29/2005 11:22:47 AM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: SoothingDave
I am not a big football fan. Sometimes, it's ok, but if they are racing ANYTHING, i would rather watch that.

My dad thought I was nuts for watching barstool racing over football. It's his fault, though, because I was taken to races in utero and as a baby. Once the smell of nitromethane and rubber gets in the blood as a baby, that's it.


29 posted on 11/29/2005 11:23:24 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Posts by Fierce Allegiance are copyright © 2005. Reuse without permission subject to $250 fee/ word)
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To: dangus

I think this is a stupid "good sounding" idea if put into pratice it will lead to higher prices.........


30 posted on 11/29/2005 11:24:23 AM PST by Paul8148
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To: Fierce Allegiance

You into the Spice Girls or something? Or was that supposed to be Spike?

Also, there have to be other channels that carry the Dakar. Even though it gets ignored here in the states, it's big stuff elsewhere. I just wish they'd bring back the big bikes again. 600s are for weenies.


31 posted on 11/29/2005 11:24:45 AM PST by Little Pig (Is it time for "Cowboys and Muslims" yet?)
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To: Fierce Allegiance

LOL!


32 posted on 11/29/2005 11:26:29 AM PST by Pyro7480 (Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
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To: dangus

In the old days, they would charge less for "basic cable," versus "expanded cable," because basic cable did not require extra equipment at your own home, such as box converters, and at their facility. Today, you still pay less with most cable systems for "basic cable," it's just that instead of being box vs. no box, it's digital vs. no digital. And no digital is still about 60 extra channels on most systems.

"A la carte" pricing will just raise prices for everyone, since custom-designing everyone's cable service will be an added cost; not providing unwanted channels will not save any money.


33 posted on 11/29/2005 11:26:32 AM PST by dangus
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To: Little Pig

I think "Spice" is a porn channel.


34 posted on 11/29/2005 11:27:32 AM PST by dangus
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To: april15Bendovr

Great plan. I might even give up satellite for that. Aren't cable companies usually a bunch of pompous asses? Hard to see this happening. But, that whole Soviet Union thing was kind of sudden too.


35 posted on 11/29/2005 11:27:34 AM PST by somemoreequalthanothers (All for the betterment of "the state", comrade)
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To: Little Pig

I think "Spice" is a porn channel.

(same difference?)


36 posted on 11/29/2005 11:27:43 AM PST by dangus
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To: FourtySeven

You are right it was better when it was first on the air.


37 posted on 11/29/2005 11:29:59 AM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: chae

... But I'll play along:

SciFi (Stargate)
USA (Dead Zone, the 4400, Monk)
FX
Fox News
At least one channel full of Law & Order: TOS episodes. THere are so many to choose from.

Hey, since we're being stupid and pretending that if we don't watch, the costs are lower, shouldn't I pay less for cable if I watch less of it?


38 posted on 11/29/2005 11:31:19 AM PST by dangus
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To: Little Pig

I liked the Yammie 2wd bike. It sucks they don't run 1200's. Could you imagine hitting a rock at 130mph in the desert with a 1200 cc bike, though? There wouldn't be anything left for the helicopters to find.

Spice is porn. I'm no longer married. Nobody at home to bitch me out anymore, so I have to keep the adrenaline up somehow.


39 posted on 11/29/2005 11:31:46 AM PST by Fierce Allegiance (Posts by Fierce Allegiance are copyright © 2005. Reuse without permission subject to $250 fee/ word)
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To: dangus
In the old days, they would charge less for "basic cable," versus "expanded cable," because basic cable did not require extra equipment at your own home, such as box converters, and at their facility. Today, you still pay less with most cable systems for "basic cable," it's just that instead of being box vs. no box, it's digital vs. no digital. And no digital is still about 60 extra channels on most systems.

They still have a gov't mandated basic package which is just your local channels and maybe CSPAN and some shopping channels. Then there is expanded analog basic before you go to the digital realm.

SD

40 posted on 11/29/2005 11:31:49 AM PST by SoothingDave
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