OMG - McCain is pushing a bill that makes sense? This might be a first... Great idea - I'm so sick of my cable money going to MSNBC and a host of other liberal channels. Go for it McCain... It's about damn time.
No thanks Mccain, we dont need you dictating what we can watch.
What improved my cable greatly is when Maryland opened the path to Verizon FIOS to lay cable lines and compete against comcast, I hated comcast here,
Crappy service, crappy equipment , service out weekly, software in cable box unusable and they couldnt care less.
Its like day and night with FIOS here.
McCain is pushing a bill which cable company lobbyists will PAY HIM not to pass.
RE :”But bundling lowers costs in part because people who are marginally interested in certain programs subsidize them. Assume you like to watch ESPN and your friend likes to watch the Food Network. And suppose the monthly production costs of both shows is $9. You might be willing to pony up $8 for ESPN and $2 for FN, and your friend would be agreeable to the opposite. Neither show will get produced as the $8 maximum you and your friend would be willing to pay for your favorite channel would not cover the fixed production cost. But if you both pay $10 for both channels both shows get produced for a profit.
Ineed, if there is a bias in McCain’s bill it is against non-sports programming. As recent deals have show, the appetite for sports programming is far greater than other types of shows. Unless the government is actually prepared to tell people what they must watch ESPN survives while Food Network goes away.
If a la carte pricing were the way to go, then we would still be in the infancy of the cable industry when programming was pay-per-view and there were far fewer choices for consumers. Let’s please not go back there, Senator McCain”
Senator McCain's Cable TV Bill Intended To Target Sports Fans But Would Be Bad For Everyone(Forbes 5/14/2013)/