People join them based on some Emmy-winning piece of crap show, discover that literally no other content is of interest, and decide they don’t want to give up eating out once or twice a month to pay the subscription.
When I looked at all the crap that I was supporting because they were throw-ins with the Cable Networks, that is why my bill was over $100. I am so glad to get the chance to transition to streaming. There is nothing on Cable that I want that I can’t get on streaming.
Yeah, the bundling of cable channels was probably dreamed up by the cable content creators, and various greedheads on their boards of directors. At the end of my cable run I was watching Discovery Channel, and that’s about it. I used to love A&E Biography, but to hold viewers (so they thought) they stopped doing important historical figures (Ben Franklin, Patton, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, etc) and started telling us about entertainment industry nitwits like Madonna.