a La Carte Cable television, what would you chose?

various | 3-25-04 | various

[Indy Pendance]

What do you consider a fair market value for cable channels? What would you consider paying? If you could only have 2-3 stations for $100 per month, what would they be, or is $100 for 3 too much? Would Nielsen ratings become obsolute? Is it the government's responsibility to dictate cable TV?

[pbear8]

A dollar each. I'd pick FNC, History Channel, A & E, Discovery, TLC, HGTV, BBC America, the Weather Channel, maybe a few more.

[RightWhale]

If they had a channel that would show the sky all the time in case there is an asteroid coming, I might even buy a TV.

[Maceman]

I wish Congress would worry more about lowering tax rates and cutting spending and less about relatively insignificant nonsense like ATM fees and cable rates.

[zook]

I'd take all the news channels, Turner Classic Movies, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Nick, TV Land, Bravo, Disney, TNT, TBS,

I guess it's almost what I have now, except no MTV, and replace AMC with TCM.

[GeronL]

Fox News, Sci-Fi, Discovery, Discovery Wings, History, Tech-TV, Encore Westerns, Weather and the Texas Cable News channel(TXCN)

[Petronski]

History Channel
History International
Discovery
Discovery Wings
Fox Sports Ohio (Go Tribe!)
Fox News Channel
Travel Channel
Food Network
Bravo (Columbo reruns)
VH1 Classic
Turner Classic Movies
American Movie Classics

[GeronL]

American Movie Classics, Turner Classic Movies and any channel that currently shows boxing.

[Indy Pendance]

I'd pick Fox, History, TLC, Discovery (Monster House & Garage and Mythbusters), Animal Planet (not the Aussie guy), Nick at Nite (old classics that would be banned today {All in the Family}), C-span (because they cover esoteric congressional stuff normal channels don't), Weather Channel and AMC (Great classics).

[KevinDavis]

sci fi...

[Petronski]

Ach! I forgot....


TechTV

[Ken H]

Must have stations:

FoxNews
History Channel
Discovery
A&E
AMC
Turner Classic Movies (yeah, I know)
TV Land-- Gots to have Andy Griffith and Leave it to Beaver

Also, XM Radio is a must have.

[InvisibleChurch]

nothing to do with turner, oxygen, mtv, bet, vh1 .. i'd expect the rest to be free of charge.... just because

[DLfromthedesert]

So how do you get AP without the Aussie guy?

[Indy Pendance]

"I wish Congress would worry more about lowering tax rates and cutting spending"

Slowly we'll get there, the democrats took 70+ years to ruin this country, it's going to take more than 3 years to restore it. There are too many dependent upon government now. We have to keep at it, with attrition, those who were for the great society' will soon be dead, and the hippie baby boomers are a small minority. We have to keep at it. Remember, we have instant news. 10-20-40-60 years ago the news was by newspaper or TV. We all want change NOW, but we have to be realistic, maybe if I'm lucky, I'll see a true conservative government in my life, but I have to work for it for my kids, my grandkids and our future generations. We can not throw up our hands in dispare.

[Unknown Freeper]

HGTV
FoxNews
Weather Channel
Discovery
TLC
Cartoon Network

I can't believe how much I spend when this is all I need. They could cut us another break on the high speed access while they're at it.

[Indy Pendance]

I like the classic movies. One weekend, about 20 years ago, I watched a Bette Davis festival. It was incredible.

[AnnaZ]

I've been begging for this for YEARS! I abolutely refuse to subsidize VIACOM, and will not get cable until I'm able to choose the channels, and only the channels, I want.

[Indy Pendance]

I know, he's annoying now. I used to like him until he got 'popular'.

[txhurl]

Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., agreed.

"You start acting irresponsibly, we regulate you," Lott told cable industry executives at a committee hearing. "There is a point where people will rebel. They're going to holler at us, and we're going to take it out on you. Americans are only going to pay so much for football. This is a fair warning."

Now this is what I call teeth and about damn time.

I NEED:

FoxNews
Bravo
OLN (Sunday bullriding)
Bravo
Comedy Channel
IFN
More Bravo
No MTV
Discovery