I would glady give up 40 of the junk ones so I did not have to wade through them to get through the 30 semi-decent/viewable ones.
Given a la carte pricing, odds are you'd end up with only twenty channels being offered, only ten of which would meet your "decent/viewable" standard.
Imagine, for example, how long Gore TV could stay on the air with a la carte pricing...
A perfect example of letting the consumer choose who lives or dies among the content providers.
Given a la carte pricing, odds are you'd end up with only twenty channels being offered, only ten of which would meet your "decent/viewable" standard.
I might only want to subscribe and pay for 5 channels. My wife uses the private favorites list on the DishNet receiver to limit the annoyance of surfing over 300 mostly uninteresting items in the program guide.
I live in an area that has very poor HDTV coverage. Only NBC produces enough signal at my antenna. Fortunately, that is also the network that has the single TV program that I watch on occasion. I won't put money into an HDTV without sufficient satisfactory content to make it worthwhile. It is not there yet.