Yes but I do not pay for cable in the first place. One reason is they carry networks like #FakeNews CNN.
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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...
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.
NO.....just don’t watch them.....it is worse for them to be on with few viewers, than to be off altogether....
“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).
Why? the obviously are a legit News organization or the President wouldn’t continue to send his people to debate them. Can’t have it both ways Donald.
With the technology that exists today there’s no practical reason that a cable subscriber couldn’t choose, day-to-day, exactly which channels he wants to watch and only be billed for those. Numerous lawsuits brought against the practice of ‘bundling’ in the past have led to ‘unbundling’ of a product. IBM most famously comes to mind.
No, that’s what leftists do. I’d rather they just put a price per month on each channel and let people choose and pay for the channels they want to watch.