[Perdogg]

It is a disaster in the making.

[Responsibility2nd]

The legislation is intended to “allow the consumer, the television viewer who subscribes to cable, to have à la carte capability. In other words, not required to buy a whole bunch of channels that that consumer may not want wish to subscribe to,” McCain said moments ago.

 

Yes! Yes, yes, yes. Its about time consumers were given the a la carte option. The only thing wrong here is this has John McCains fingerprints all over it. We're doomed. Even if this passes, McCain will screw it up.

We're doomed.

[Teflonic]

It is a disaster in the making.

Explain please? I would think giving consumers the power to starve msnbc and gay propaganda channels out of business would be a good thing...

[Hulka]

Do not agree.

I despise having to pay for Spanish language TV. Almost a dozen channels I am forced to pay for.

[PeteB570]

can it be worse?

I have, I guess you’d call it, 2nd Tier on Time Warner Cable. No premium channels like HBO or Showtime.

They’ve moved a channel every couple of months to the upper tiers so now I’ve got about 70 channels.

Sounds good doesn’t it?

But that 70 includes 3 Spanish channels, 3 shop at homes, 5 copies of the same IROC channel, and a number of other stations that have 2 or more - one regular and one HD.