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.
I still see some of my old colleagues on the Discovery Channel. One of my Archaelogist friends was Daniel Patrick. I excavavated with him on a few Dead Sea Digs. He also was doing Herodian, to the South of Jerusalem. I wasn’t on that one, but I visited the site several times. It was good work!