Posted on 07/10/2017 11:20:01 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
Since cable TV is dying off, shouldn't we be demanding these seditionists from CNN be cut off the cable line up? Otherwise, we cut off the cable.
Demand these traitors to the Republic fall off the face of the earth and censure them to youtube.
Yes but I do not pay for cable in the first place. One reason is they carry networks like #FakeNews CNN.
JoMa
We should be demanding that cable offer ALL programming ala carte.
Then, the market would force CNN out.
If only I could pick the stations I want to pay for.
Eventually, lack of ratings will do that. Advertisers don’t like throwing their money away. Just don’t watch. I don’t
I, luckily, do not have CNN or any of the other fake news programs...
I watch other things, quilting, cooking, travel shows, English movies...
Even basic here gets you CNN. Thankfully, MSNBC isn’t offered on any package. I’ve had to cut out the food network and HGTV due to so much gay this and homo that. There’s very little left to watch.
If I had a two-channel cable with CNN’s only rival was a channel where you could watch paint dry, the paint channel would be my choice.
I have basic, but just local channels, the ones I said in my other posts, and Cspan and Cspan2...sure glad I don’t have to listen to them...
“We should be demanding that cable offer ALL programming ala carte.”
We cut our Comcast/Xfinity cable due to two $25 price increases since the first of the year.
The problem with all of the basic providers is they include CNN in their basic package and a lot of other trash stations.
We are using Sling, but they force you to fund/buy a lot of crap.
We pay for Amazon Prime, Acorn and the concert channel on Prime. Those are our choices.
NO.....just don’t watch them.....it is worse for them to be on with few viewers, than to be off altogether....
Yes, exactly. But Congress and the FCC won't allow them to do that -- protection for Big Broadcasting. Nor will professional sports leagues allow you to choose out of market sports networks (and the games they carry) without paying them for a package.
I’ve already blocked them off my set, but was thinking a collective, verbal movement would present a “more in your face” disdain and communicate stronger distrust. And since cable companies are losing subscribers, they would be more receptive to this demand.
Right. It’s protection Big Broadcast has paid politicians for. And, previously, Big Cable didn’t care.
But now that streaming is starting to hurt Big Cable they should be offering money to politicians for the ala carte option. It would improve their competitiveness with streaming immensely.
(Hmmm... maybe streaming companies are now also paying to keep out ala carte?)
Never mind the benefit to viewers. Which should be the key point but isn’t.
“Otherwise, we cut off the cable.”
Just skip to there, and cut off the cable. You won’t miss it, believe me.
It’s bad enough I have to look at CNN in airports, though even there I try to keep my distance and gravitate to the windows far from the screens. I haven’t had cable for many years.
I agree with some other posters. It would be lovely if one could contract for cable on an ala carte basis, with a low base fee of $50 sign up fee and perhaps $10 per month for the convenience and then $3 per month for any other channel for which we’d want to subscribe. One a one time basis, the cost for a channel not already in your bin could be $10. A lot more people would sign up, I think, and they’d make money on volume.
I guess you can ask them. But they are private companies. You are really in no position to demand anything.
And if you showed up at their front door with a petition-—they will tell you they are taking it under advisement. Then they are going to call their Ad Sales manager and figure out who is paying them more money: The local advertisers on CNN or you.
The question answers itself, doesn’t it?
More than 2/3 of CNN’s revenue comes from cable and satellite companies, e.g. “we” pay for them. So unless you can convince millions of people to drop cable/satellit, it’s not going to do any good to boycott CNN, as they will get paid anyway (and that includes all the Turner products, such as TCM, etc).
Somewhat the way that when cable first started, movie theaters would hve signs on their marquess saying “STOP PAY TV”.
You could not be more incorrect.
The government does not dictate programming. The DO dictate what they can charge for a package based on the costs.
The cable companies would be thrilled to give you a 100% a la carte channels. The problem is the basic cable cost (the cost for the plant, maintenance, etc.) would not change all that much.
Channels bundle (CNN, HLN,TNT, TBS, etc) because they can get the “subs’ (subscribers) for their advertising. They go to their customers and talk about being in 90% of homes. That is one of the things that they base their ad rates on.
In the end, it will transition all the way to broadband and even wireless. Why the cable companies haven’t installed high powered wifi in every neighborhood is beyond me. Its not like theft is the issue it once was.
If I still ran a cable company, I would try to move everyone over to Broadband and update the system to generate the fastest speed around. I could dump 2/3 of my billing system, I could dump my programming costs, and my plant maintenance and “head end” costs would drop.
I would tell my customers they could get the pipeline from me, and they can buy whatever programming they want.
But, the audience on Free Republic skews....a little older. (A lot older.) By the time the grandkids are 40, cable TV will be a distant memory.
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