Millions Of Cable Customers Could Lose Fox News This Week

[not_the_one]

17. Sounds like a good start.

We should have "a la carte" cable services, which the FCC says cable services CAN offer. But what we ACTUALLY get are "a la carte" BUNDLES.

I have no desire to financially support ANY FOX channel, any religious channel, any right-wing/neo-nazi channel, any sports channel (with the one exception of THE OLYMPIC NETWORK). I don't speak Spanish, so I don't need any of those, either.

That would cut my # of channels down to about 50? Instead of hundreds of crap I don't watch.

I understand it is a marketing tool. The cable services want to brag that they offer all these viewing options, KNOWING that you WON'T watch them, and KNOWING that most of those same channels COULD NOT exist as stand alone channels, which means THEY could not brag about offering HUNDREDS of channels to entice you to use their cable service.

Then add to that the fact that they are tiered options. I ONLY watch HD channels, yet to get the HD tier I must automatically take ALL the lower tiered channels, of which many are duplicates of what I get in HD. Of course the regulation is that you can not be forced to take a HIGHER tier that you don't want. But the way it is set up you must take all lower tiers, up to and including the one that meets your needs. (According to Blue Ridge Cable, my service...)

With computerized cable boxes these variations could easily be addressed. But then the cable services would not have "brag" factor to use when selling their service.

I apologize, but this REALLY pisses me off.



edit to add "of"