This is a chart of what cable services are paying for various channels:
I’ve gotten to a point where I don’t even watch cable very much. So many crapply reality shows, liberal foul-mouth comedians, and other unwatchable drivel. I would love an ala carte billing system. Just pay for what you want to watch sounds great to me.
So basically, if I just paid for the channels I watched on a regular basis, I’d save about 75 percent. Figures.
This is why I cancelled cable/Sat TV. MSNBC gets .16 cents to spew their hate. Cable/sat Tv has made libs more powerful. ABC Family Channel (disney) is hardly family oriented. Almost soft core porn for the younger set.
Note that many of these networks listed are owned by ABC, CNN, NBC, CBS Viacom or other pro-Islamic, anti American channels.
I wish every channel would just set up HD streaming for a fee on their website. Then, I’d cancel the television part of cable altogether and just have internet.
I’d subscribe to Fox News, Food Network, and some of the junky crap my wife watches and I’d be happy.
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My cable bill should be about $4.50
I have had some luck over the last 5 years renegotiating my bill with my cable company. I can usually get 15 to 20% off my bill, but it has to be on their terms, meaning they have things they can discount but it may not be the item I want discounted. The cable companies spend a lot of money attracting new customers. They do not want to lose existing ones, so they will give a bit.
I think if more people put pressure on the cable companies, then they will have to go back and get cheaper products. Only then will a la carte programming be seriously considered.
I have basic-basic cable. You’ll never see it on the cable companies websites or paperwork but it was there.
I pay $4.71 per month.(Comcast)
What he’s missing is that the cable companies buy their channels in bundles too. They don’t get just ESPN, they get the whole ESPN package (2, News, Deportes, Classic, U) plus Disney and ABC Family all at a “cut rate”. This is why they sell in bundles, it’s all wrapped up in the contracts they’re getting from the channel companies. Until the cable companies can buy ala carte (which the channels won’t do because it’s he best way to push their cheap channels that are all profit even with few viewers) they will be contractually unable to sell ala carte.
I pay my ISP fees (to my phone company for DSL service) and don’t have cable: I get my news on FreeRepublic, the BBC website, and a handful of overseas newspaper sites (three British, one each Russian, Aussie, Japanese, Korean and Singaporean) and watch NCIS and Burn Notice on the CBS site and Hulu respectively. If I want more televisual entertainment, my town has a phenomenal DVD rental store (huge selections of foreign films, both European and Asian, and of anime, plus all the usual stuff including television show boxed sets). Works great if you’re not into sports.
if these channels actually had to come up with content that would cause a viewer to voluntarily purchase that channel, they would all be out of business.
When is the last time you’ve seen a good movie on HBO?
Why is Bill Maher on at least one of the eleven HBO channels seemingly at any time of any day? Is this the Bill maher channel?
When is the last time you have seen a good movie on Cinemax?
When is the last time you saw a good movie on STARZ? Seven Pounds is my answer on that one.
When is the last time you saw a good movie on Encore?
When is the last time you saw a good movie on Show Time? Dexter doesn’t count, that’s a weekly drama that’s only on in the fall.
Good movies on The Movie Channel? Nada! Moving on to The Sundance Channel...
Why does the Sundance Channel even exist? Who watches this? Has anything interesting ever come on this channel?
IFC- Every now and then shows a good movie.
I canceled my movie channels because of soft core porn. Everytime I want to see if a movie is on, this crap is on. Sex movies that show no sex. Awesome. I would never again consider having MAX, Showtime, TMC or any other channel that runs this garbage.
>>>This is a chart of what cable services are paying for various channels
The chart is what the cable company pays, not what the consumer pays TO the cable company. Interesting information.
This is a great system for the cable channels. Force people who would never consider using your product to pay you for it anyway. A La Carte would be the end of most of the junk on cable and would force the handful of Bravo, MSNBC, CNN and Mexican Anal (?) viewers to pay their fair shair. No wonder the media supports socialism, it is what keeps their industry going.
I see a lot of money I could save off of that list.
Of the 300,or so,channels I have I watch,at most,15-20.A la carte should save me big $$$ but there are one or two that I *do* watch that are obscure enough that they might go away in an a la carte world.
The lack of an a la carte option is the reason we have rabbit ears.
The main channels I want are Fox News, History and Speed TV. To get all three means going to the second or third tier of standard channels (whether cable or satellite), and I’m not paying $50/month or more for a bunch of stuff I don’t want and won’t watch. Heck, I’m not even home most of the day except for the weekends.
So the handful of broadcast channels, or, increasingly, the Internet is where I go.
I say screw ‘em. If they won’t give me what I want, then they won’t get my money. Simple as that. Doubly so with the political slant in every media outlet these days.
I just wish some company some where would target the market of people like me, whether via Internet or some other medium.
Considering the lack of content and the ever increasing advertising, we won’t be renewing our DirectTV subscription. We pay about $45/month and the disconnect fee is $20 per month unused, so, we’ll just go until October then cancel. We can get the network channels over the air in HD and Hulu the rest of the shows we watch. FoxNews has become useless for information so that’s not a concern anymore. I can listen to Rush online and Mark Levin over Sirius. For news, FR is about as good as any as it covers many topics and sources with few liberal injections. :) I’ll miss having the various “educational” type of channels like Military, Discovery, etc., but I wouldn’t mind having less TV in my life anyway. It has become not much past filler.