I’ve been happily stuck at zero channels for the past seven years.
I would love the option to choose to pay for only the few channels I want. I’m really tired of 25 Spanish stations, 136 sports stations, a History channel that seems locked on Ancient Aliens (with the world’s scariest hairdo’d idiot pretending he knows what he is talking about)....etc.
Guess I am old enough to remember the days when we only had 4 channels, but were lucky to live high enough on a hill to get a couple more from Ohio.
Than that 5th. channel signed-on using something called “UHF” and it was da bomb.
when you have 15 channels of QVC type channels, 15 sports channels, and a dozen left-wing news channels, it only makes it harder to find something worth watching.
It’s not a matter of not being able to handle more channels, it’s a matter of very few channels are actually worth watching.
“Americans Get Hundreds Of TV Channels, Can Still Only Handle 17”
Why over think it? It’s most likely that, out of all those channels, the average viewer only finds 17 or so that are of interest. Likely has nothing to do with being overwhelmed with channels. The variety leads to the number, IMO.
What’s a TV channel?
All them and I still end up watching reruns of I Love Lucy. </sarc>
They are now doing the same thing to the internet, as my bill, which started out 6 years ago around $45, has now passed $60. So if they keep raising it, eventually I'll dump that as well. I don't think they realize how much business they are going to lose once people have to start paying thousands for "free" healthcare. Something has to give.
I dropped my cable a few years back. The channels I liked we’re spread out across “packages”. I as tired of paying $100.00+ a month and I only wanted to watch 10-12 depending. Lots of channels stay afloat that are watched hardly at all because they reside in a “package”. Oprah’s network is a prime example of this. Switch to al a carte and watch how quickly her’s and many other worthless channels (or channels with no demand) die.
We probably have over 500 channels (including about 200 HD duplicates of SD channels that we get), and there are probably about 25 to 30 channels that we watch with any regularity. It has nothing to do with how much we can handle and is instead a limitation of which channels have any programming that we are interested in watching.
Many times, especially during the lull where there are no good sport events active, we literally have 500+ channels and NOTHING worth watching available.
Half the channels advertise stuff we would never buy. Why are we paying for their commercials and they are also paying DirtecTV for their commercial space??? We will ditch it next January when our contract expires. We don’t get that much out of it.
Too many channels, and most are crap.
No matter how many channels they add, there is still only so many hours a day we can watch. And these channel guides now can take 30 minutes to scroll through.
I usually just scroll down to the first thing I see that looks tolerable since I usually only half pay attention anyway and DVR the few shows I really care about, speaking of which, the new “24” began this week.
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I doubt I even hit 17. Maybe a dozen, recently managed to add FX into my world, but I think somebody else dropped out. Of course thanks to the DVR some shows stay in my view list without the rest of the network, I don’t even realize a show is coming back then all of a sudden it shows up.
I watch,at most,a dozen of the 300+ channels I have,a third of which,it seems,are shopping channels.I very much want a la carte,even if it means that channels that I like are hit hard enough by it that they disappear.For the first 35 years of my life I did just fine with 4 channels (actually,it was closer to 10 in the 80’s).I think I could do it again.