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A la carte pricing urged for cable TV
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| Nov. 29, 2005 at 1:59PM
Posted on 11/29/2005 11:20:05 AM PST by april15Bendovr
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To: april15Bendovr
Cable industry won't do it.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:22:42 AM PST
by
calrighty
(. Troops BTTT)
To: april15Bendovr
Good idea. Fifty bucks a month for five or six watchable channels is pretty bogus...
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:24:48 AM PST
by
Kenton
(Muslims want to play by their own version of "girls' rules")
To: Kenton
Good idea. Fifty bucks a month for five or six watchable channels is pretty bogus...I'd rather pay $50 a month for 5 or 6 good channels than $100 a month for total garbage...
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:25:57 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: april15Bendovr
A la carte pricing urged for cable TVThis will be the death knell for Liberal TV. CNN, MSLSD, MTV, MTV2, LOGO, and all the other crap lib channels that get no ratings will die a well deserved death. Subsides from bogus cable "packages" will no longer keep the garbage channels from spouting their BS...
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:28:34 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: april15Bendovr
FANTASTIC!!!!
"A la carte pricing urged for cable TV Nov. 29, 2005 at 1:59PM Federal regulators are calling on the cable TV industry to let viewers pay for only the channels they want to watch.
Finally the Feds are doing something worth while! Hope and pray it happens.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:31:39 AM PST
by
stopem
(Get yourTexas Trash.( on my homepage.))
To: april15Bendovr
The industry claims a la carte programming would raise costs and ultimately reduce the number of networks offered. If I am charged more for FOXNEWS and nothing for CNN (Which will be off the air) I will be content. Ratings will actually be ratings, not BS, pumped up, TV Guide "The best shows your not watching" phony Nielson ratings. All of those horrible reality shows will have the proper stake driven through their hearts.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:31:46 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: stopem
Federal regulators are calling on the cable TV industry to let viewers pay for only the channels they want to watch.COMMON SENSE PING!
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:32:32 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: frogjerk
That is the exact point I am trying to establish in the general chat posts.
To: april15Bendovr
The technology is there and it can be done. I would love this so I could get rid of channels I never watch or intend to watch. I probably could cut at least 5 to 10 stations I have no interest in. Now the big question is will the cable company give me a better rate or charge me more for the Al LA Carte service???????????
To: Captain Peter Blood
It will if Ted Turner has his say I would imagine.
To: Captain Peter Blood
Now the big question is will the cable company give me a better rate or charge me more for the Al LA Carte service???????????Probably not but wouldn't it be better to actually pay for what you want?
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:37:33 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: april15Bendovr
I was writing letters to the editor over 20 years ago calling for the same thing, knowing full well that I was living in fantasyland to think the industry would actually do it. I still had to vent, though, at the outrage of paying about $20 a month for five or six channels. Well... it seemed like a lot of money back when I was a poor college student...
To: april15Bendovr
It will if Ted Turner has his say I would imagine.Ted Turner most likely wouldn't go for it because it would kill CNN once and for all...Who would want to pay specifically for that crap?
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:38:50 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: april15Bendovr
ultimately reduce the number of networks offeredThis is a bad thing?
To: Captain Peter Blood
They ain't gonna charge ya less, and you can take that to the bank!
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:41:08 AM PST
by
Roccus
To: Captain Peter Blood
The technology is there and it can be done. Correct. Pay-per-view already exists and it would only be an extension of it. If the cable company provided a simple web site or phone menu system you could pick once a month or so what channels you wanted for that month and that would take care of your viewing choice and billing.
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:41:56 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: Captain Peter Blood
I think you already know the answer to that, it would probably be $20.channel
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posted on
11/29/2005 11:42:33 AM PST
by
mel
To: frogjerk
What I meant is Ted would want us to fund all the liberal channels that nobody wants to watch.
Sorry I wasn't very clear on my point
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