Watching TV on web is disrupting cable, broadcast worlds

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45. Bundling is their issue. They should have gone to a la carte years ago.

But just like the music industry, they were stubborn and in denial about the changing world, and now they are about to pay the price.

We still have cable (for now). But the #1 thing that pisses me off about cable is that I pay $80 a month for 5 channels that I actually watch. There are five good channels, and 130 more that are absolute rubbish 24-7. And of course the ones I actually want to watch are in the highest tier. The base package, which still costs something like $25 dollars a month, is kind of like what you used to get back in the old days with rabbit ears - 3 local news stations, a bizarre cable access channel, 2 religious programming channels, and 2 shopping network channels. THAT'S what they think someone should pay $25 for a month!!! It's fucking ridiculous.

Nobody wants to pay $80 a month for 5 good channels and 130 other channels of 24-7 religion, home shopping, and trashy reality TV. We never have. It's just that before the advent of being able to watch TV on the internet, the choice was pay $80 for the 5 good channels or get nothing at all. Well, Cable TV executives, the internet now allows us to unbundle and skip all the rubbish. Sucks for you, great for us. You should have gotten with the program years ago.