People are getting sick and tired of the bait-and-switch from cable TV.
The original promise of cable was that in exchange for a monthly fee, you woould get programs without commercial interruption.
Now, you get more commercials per episode than with broadscast TV (which is controlled by the FCC). It is beginning to seem that there are more commercials than program. They also pump up the volume
Why exactly do the do that? That's my #2 pet peeve. Right behind drivers who drive through the parking stall rows in parking lots.
We originally got satellite because my husband is an insomniac and it had all night programing, there are very few channels that don’t go to infomercials at 2:00 AM.
Even have their own infomercial channels, makes you sick to pay for all that and only get a few minutes of what we really want.
Of course, I guess we could pay a little MORE IF we want no commercials, hahahahahaha. Look for that to be the next push by cable.
I have gone to recording the shows I like, then run through them with no commercials, get to see more that way in less time. Takes only about 20 mins to see the real show.
DirecTV does a nice bait and switch too. Signed up last year for $39/Mo. for the first 12 months, the second year I've seen 3 rate hikes, paying $82/Mo. for the same package I paid $39/Mo. for last year. As soon as this "contract" with DirecTV is up in a few months, I'm shutting it off and going back to OTA TV (Over The Air.)
No cable, no DirecTV, nothing. Sure I'll miss Fox News but beyond that, there's really nothing I watch on TV at this point that I can't stream over the net free or very cheaply. (Burn Notice comes to mind.)
TV is junk food for the brain anyway..