I don’t buy it.
MSNBC is part of NBC’s “gun to your head” package on all cable/satellite providers.
Comcast, the owner of NBC, goes to other cable/sat providers (DirectTV, Dish, AT&T, CableVision, etc.) and says to these companies:
“You want NBC? You want Olympic channels? You want to carry these relatively successful venues? Then you ALSO have to carry our dung bucket, MSNBC. Unless you agree to that, we won’t provide you our other fodder.”
That is how we get stuck with garbage like Al Sharpton’s show and Rachel Maddow’s madness on our systems.
If consumers could PICK, a la carte, which stations they wanted...and would pay for ONLY those stations, you’d see PMSNBC wither up like Hillary and blow away at the slightest wind...or, perhaps, it MIGHT be bankrolled by billionaire liberals....but I doubt it. They, too, want RESULTS. And MSNBC ain’t cuttin’ the mustard.
There has been talk in Canada of a la carte pricing for tv providers but so far just talk nothing concrete. You would still have to buy a basic package which would include stuff you didn’t want but everything else theoretically would be your choice. The pricing is high enough now that some are cutting the cord and dropping it all which of course is the last thing the companies want so it is a move that should come in the future if they want to survive.
There is no requirement that you ever stop on that channel, however. Click past, quickly.
Exactly. And that’s why there’s so much push back on a la carte packaging. There’d probably be the networks, sports channels and maybe two dozen others channels survive. And I can’t wait ‘til it happens. (I’m assuming at some point it will for the simple fact that the streaming options are picking up so much steam - and they’ll need to do something to compete).