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To those you that think you are getting what you pay for I suggest you take a good look at what you are PAYING FOR and a REAL GOOD LOOK at what your are really watching.
Probably 75% of what you are paying for you never watch.....
If they want to offer this programming for their subscribers, they have to pay for it, a completely foreign concept to some liberals. No different than any other channels.
Sounds like Cablevision has had run-ins with several other networks over cost disputes too. Perhaps the problem is Cablevision just not wanting to pay up for programming.
Sorry Cablevision, but if you want to offer programming to your viewers, you do indeed have to pay for it.
YANKEES fans who were subscribers to CABLEVISION had to wait 2 years for access to YES Network in a similar dispute...
Looks like NEWS Corp. is using this as an opportunity to recoup all the money they paid to the Republican Party campaigns...
I guess football fans will just have to settle for watching Sarah Palin's reality show instead...
Really, stop trying to tie this to politics. You're thread title was obviously changed because it has nothing to do with politics. In fact, your argument is exactly backwards - wouldn't NC WANT more subscribers so they can brainwash them?
Really, stop trying to tie this to politics. You're thread title was obviously changed because it has nothing to do with politics. In fact, your argument is exactly backwards - wouldn't NC WANT more subscribers so they can brainwash them?
Classic thread FAIL.
Everybody knows Rupert Murdoch and NEWS Corp. has made massive contributions to the Republican Party... Looks like the Republicans are now hurting advertisers too...
They were getting $70 MILLION on the previous contract... Now they want $150 MILLION?... ... Talk about price gouging... They must want Obama out bad...
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.
So NewsCorp is doing what every other cable company in the U.S. does.
For example, The Big Ten Network is considered a Tier One channel in states where Big Ten schools are located. The cable companies pay them an average of 90 cents per household. Go outside of a Big Ten state and that rate drops to 25 cents.
They all do it. And it seems to work just fine. It actually makes sense. I doubt many people in Louisiana are clamoring for the Big Ten Network. So, the Big Ten Network drops the price in an attempt to attract customers.
The market takes care of the consumer as always. No need for FCC arbitration.
Maybe liberals next great human right campaign will to be make sure everyone gets the exact same cable channels at the exact same cost. It's only fair.
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... Talk about price gouging... They must want Obama out bad...
