[april15Bendovr]

People complain about gas prices but I feel I get more by out of burning fuel in my car than watching useless TV. Your thoughts please?

[fso301]

For sports, I'd need to add ABC, CBS, NBC and ESPN to your list

[flashbunny]

foxnews
discovery (or tlc, I forget which one is the good one)
history channel
scifi
comedy central (south park and reno 911)

Possibles:
Military channel
OLN
Spike (if they make new episodes of MXC)
science channel
HGTV

[skaterboy]

ESPN..ESPN CLASSIC...GAMESHOW...TVLAND...DISCOVERY CHANNEL..HISTORY..CARTOON NETWORK..FOX NEWS...COMEDY CHANNEL...YOU CAN ORDER ALA CARTE ON THE BIG DISH BUT THEY ARE GETTING PHASED OUT BY THE LIL DISHES AND I GOT A BUNCH OF CRAP I DONT WATCH FOR 80 BUCKS A MONTH

[chae]

Fox News
Fox
FX (love that 70's show & the Shield)
USA (WWE)
Spike (TNA)

[PetroniDE]

ESPN Networks
All the Regional Sports Networks
All the available International Sports Networks
NFL Sunday Ticket
NHL Center Ice
MLB Extra Innings

Fox News
Weather Channel
History Channel
History Channel International
Military Channel
Local Networks (for sports and local news only)

HBO

(maybe one or two cartoon channels)

[PetroniDE]

You should change your name to

April15-BOHICA....

[balrog666]

It's easier to eliminate channels:

Kill all the money-grubbing religious channels.
Kill all the product-selling channels.
Kill all the womyn's channels.
Kill all MSM channels.

That's a good start.

[GSWarrior]

My question is: Why can't we do that now?

[Dashing Dasher]

You can keep SciFi and I'll take SpeedTV.

ESPN, Military Channel and I'll also need some movie channels - like AMC, TCM - maybe even HBO.

©

[Fierce Allegiance]

Speed
History
Discovery
Military
TLC
OLN
Anything with World of Outlaws racing.
The British sports network carrying the 2006 DAKAR Rally
Espn2
Spice

[theFIRMbss]

>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 . . .

[FourtySeven]

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.

[Rakkasan1]

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

[dangus]

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.

[april15Bendovr]

Here is the news story

A la carte pricing urged for cable TV

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

[somemoreequalthanothers]

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.

[IronJack]

The industry is wary about offering ala carte cable service. I suspect the cable giants make major money from small producers whose exposure (and hence, advertising dollars) comes solely from the fact that their channel is packaged with something someone wants. Left to their own devices, nobody would buy that service, or it would have to be so exorbitantly expensive it would price itself out of the market.

However, billing services are equipped to bill for ala-carte-only, if and when the cable companies elect to deliver it.

[Mixer]

I certainly like the idea but someone had suggested $1 per channel. With the DirecTV package that I currenlty have (no HBO or other Movie Channels) it is something like 24 cents a channel. If they would charge 25 cents per channel I would be all over this idea.

[dangus]

I think part of this is caused by the misconception that people's cable bill amounts to them paying for content they find objectionable. It doesn't. Most channels with advertising -- with exceptions -- don't get any of your basic cable costs. They make more from ads than they would from cable rights, so they want to make sure that their programming is available to the widest possible audience. Those networks which do charge for coverage, such as HBO and ShowTime, usually are available as premium packages or a la carte. YES (Yankees) is a notable exception.

[Casloy]

Food channel
FOX
HGTV
Discovery
History
A&E
HBO


I'd pay a dollar per channel for the Networks to just go away.