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Nothing wrong, but it will just be passed on to the viewer...
Actually its passed onto the advertisers, who can choose to pay the extra $.0001 per ad per household to advertise or not. i.e. average 8640 commercials a month, / # households.
Nothing wrong, but it will just be passed on to the viewer...
Ever hear of "you get what you pay for" and "pay for what you get"? I know, I know... difficult concept for some who continually expect freebies and handouts.
I pay extra for the packages I choose through my provider. I would expect that everyone does the same.
It's just two rich corporations fighting over their share of the pie. Content distributors (cable companies) charge their customers $x per month and share that revenue with the content providers (TV channels). TV channels also collect revenue by selling advertising but ad revenues are down so they are fighting for a bigger share of the subscription revenue.
Ever hear of "you get what you pay for" and "pay for what you get"? I know, I know... difficult concept for some who continually expect freebies and handouts.
I pay extra for the packages I choose through my provider. I would expect that everyone does the same.
I wouldn't know, I dropped cable eight years ago and have not missed it....
Got tired of paying to watch infomericals after midnight on 100 different channels...Is that what you mean by paying for what you get?
Really liked the History channel but figured I could just record it for three months and and would have their complete programming for a least two years or longer..
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You could switch to Dishnetwork. Oh!! I forgot! They are losing Fox too. The problem is that the cable and satellite TV providers want to pay a standard amount to the program providers. That means they want to pay the same amount to Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. Fox argues that their ratings- which are more than MSNBC and CNN combined- merit higher fees from cable and satellite TV providers. The providers feel that if they pay Fox more based on ratings, if the ratings change in the future, then the others will demand more than Fox and it will be an upward cost spiral that will never end.
This is why the FCC needs to mandate binding arbitration in these disputes so people don't lose their programming.
Location: Jonquil City (aka Smyrna) Georgia- by Atlanta
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I wouldn't know, I dropped cable eight years ago and have not missed it....
Got tired of paying to watch infomericals after midnight on 100 different channels...Is that what you mean by paying for what you get?
Really liked the History channel but figured I could just record it for three months and and would have their complete programming for a least two years or longer..
Actually its passed onto the advertisers, who can choose to pay the extra $.0001 per ad to advertise or not. i.e. average 8640 commercials a month, / # households.
Then why do people complain when their cable bill goes up if advertisers are paying the extra cost ?
Ever hear of "you get what you pay for" and "pay for what you get"? I know, I know... difficult concept for some who continually expect freebies and handouts.
I pay extra for the packages I choose through my provider. I would expect that everyone does the same.
Binding arbitration is unnecessary. At some point the market saturates and either rates level off or competitors enter the market. Let the free market work, I say.
Yes and I just loved paying for those 20 hispanic stations, guess I should have learned spanish!
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