Posted on 05/10/2013 10:23:58 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
The corporatist lefties don’t want you to have a choice.
There should be a charge for airtime, that’s all. It wouldn’t matter what channel you used. Just pay for the time you are watching. That way, people can channel surf all they want, and watch what catches their eye.
Spot on info! We have a winner!
McCain knows this too, just that it sounds like he is working hard for the lowly and downtrodden.
He should just go lay in a corner someplace and growl and bark.
As much as ala carte programming sounds good, there is a pit-fall. When the cable company see's that everyone wants a certain channel, the cost will go up accordingly. The more people want a channel, the more it will cost. Ala Carte is great for people who love the obscure channels that few people watch. Guaranteed, any savings had by ala carte programming will quickly disappear once no body buys all those channels you don't watch.
Either that, or price controls are put in place, and the government dictates how much per channel cable providers can charge; yes even more regulation than currently in place.
But unless the studios are willing to spend money on good tv, we’ll end up within thing but a bunch of (comparatively) cheaper to produce crap like Honey Boo Boo and Amish Mafia. You may want good TV, but someone has to pay for it.
I pretty much agree with your choice except I would swap FOX News for FOX Business.
It’s funny how many FReepers think the gov’t can change the law and make things cheaper. I said it on the thread yesterday on the same subject: $10/channel or 200 for $100.
If al la carte comes, it won’t be cheap.
Good point...just add FOX Business to my list :-)
“Same with me. I’m sick of paying for Logo, BET, Telemundo, Univision, ect ect.”
I would argue the opposite. Blacks and Mexicans probably watch fewer channels on average than the typical subscriber. I mean how many Spanish cable stations are out there? Just sayin
Well, they can either offer a la carte and bundling options or they can continue down the their current path of losing viewers to the internet.
Everything is available at no cost to you somewhere on the internet.
BINGO!
Throw in ME tv.
When I got Dish Network about 15 years ago they offered ‘Ala Carte’ channels.... minimum of 10 channels at $1.50 channel per month.
So 10 channels cost me $15 a month... but some channels weren’t available this way, such as FOX News.
They later dropped it, but I was grandfathered in. Mothballed the dish when I went to Iraq, when I got back they wouldn’t let me have the old plan so I dropped Dish... and TV in general. 7+ years of no broadcast TV - it’s been GREAT!
I mean how many Spanish cable stations are out there? Just sayin
I don't know where you live but there are a whole lot of Spanish channels here were I live and they are adding more by the month. Frankly I'm sick of paying for them so I don't know what there really is to argue about.
It is only a problem for those that think that prices wll stay the same. Gaurentee, the very same people advocating for ala carte are the same people that will bitch up a storm when capitalistic principles kick in.
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