Ok, Time-Warner made a business decision that may or may not lose customers. Want NFL Network? Pay more with the other provider. Don’t want it? Enjoy cable for considerably less cost...
It could be a bad decision, but maybe not. They might also have other offerings at less expense than other cable outlets that make up for it.
Of course if you could order the channels you want and nothing more or less, that would make too much sense. In the long run, because of competition, it would increase the quality of programming because not only must cable channels compete for advertisers, they would be FORCED TO COMPETE FOR SUBSCRIBERS, this would also drive down the OVERALL PRICE of Cable.
On a side note, I envision a future in which Cable signals will be wireless transmission over very high speed cell phone networks.
Competition is good and very American. Let the channels compete against each other and let technology give us a distribution model with low infrastructure cost.
How will that work with obamavision?