All this sounds good but it really isn’t. Here are a couple of reasons why this is all a waste of time.
1. At least with DirecTV you can set a directory that just has Fox News in it and nothing else. Add whatever you want to that. I assume but do not know that the cable companies have a similar scheme.
2. I’m pretty sure that a huge number of those channels nobody wants are paying DirecTV and the cable companies to carry their 24/7 commercial offerings. Jewelry, appliances ... Those channels subsidize the rest. Take them away and the price of the rest goes up.
3. I’m sure there’s at least one other good reason. I just can’t think of it right now.
3. It would be the end of the sports industry as we know it. Payments to ESPN and other sports-related channels are a kind of tax on cable and dish viewers for the benefit of the sports industry. That’s how those fifty-million-dollar salaries and billion-dollar broadcast deals are funded.
For that reason alone, this will not happen.
Dish network in SoCal did have multiple personal directory setup, and the wife had hers, I had mine. Loved it.