[Tanniker Smith]

I'd like to see a nice balance struck. For instance, I bought the Dish 150 package, and it was fine. And it included quite a few goodies, like west coast feeds of some of the premium channels that I didn't have. BUT... they've been creeping up on me a bit. Now there are 180 channels, but I'm not really watching any of the 30 new channels. And they've added Sirius, which I don't listen to. (I find it silly to leave my TV set on while I listen to the radio.)

My biggest complaint at the moment, and it's more of an issue with my wife, really, is that I'm actually paying five bucks a month for a handful of local UHF stations. But, hey, I'm paying for it, you don't have to have them, which is the way it should be. (BTW, originally, I was paying for all the local stations, so it was worth it. Now, the VHF channels are included in the package, but not the UHF. We rarely watch UHF, but occasionally we do.)

I wouldn't mind not having to see all those shopping channels show up. Hell, they should REDUCE my bill for having them.

TS

[bahblahbah]

The Shopping and Religious channels usually pay to be on the Cable and Satellite systems.

[Past Your Eyes]

"And they've added Sirius, which I don't listen to. (I find it silly to leave my TV set on while I listen to the radio.)"

That's why I run it through a Bose wave radio and turn the TV off. We spend at least as much time listening to 2 or 3 music channels as we do watching useless TV shows. At the moment, I am listening to Bluegrass.