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With the digital transition there was a law enacted to provide very basic cable for about $10 a month. It includes all the over the air stations, all your local city channels,,....and cspan
Someone needs to tell Suddenlink. They want 25 for JUST broadcast tv. (plus taxes and such) and 40 dollars to set it up if you don't have a line. You won't find this on their website, you have to call and ask customer service.
Dish is 17 plus taxes and such. They give you a few other channels and since the box is there I went with that. This area is not well off but you don't see antennas anywhere which gives you a clue why...
I'd be happy to get the basic stuff some way for a cheap cost. Even better would be giving people a cheap cable/sat package with only the channels they request, priced by how many. I'd pay more for say 20 channels if I wanted them. 250 and you watch maybe 5 is ridiculas.
I'm positive that this has been said somewhere in the 4 pages I won't read, but really? I'm going to throw my vote for 'We're going to consider cable a basic human right now?' WTF?
Let's take this to the exteme. People also deserve the right to eat at a restaraunt once in awhile, but if they can not afford it let's have the government pay for that and oh the closest one one that they need to go to is to far to walk so let's have the government pay for their gas, oh that is right we need to pay for a car since they do not have enough money to buy one and then of course it is going to need insurance and maintenance so the government will have to help there as well. I feel for those who do not have alot. I am working 2 jobs currently and do not have everything I would like but realize that with hard work and patience I can save enough to get some extras. People need to realize that we all have the right to life, liberty and the PURSUIT of happiness. There is no right to happiness.
This was a satire. I laughed my butt off typing it, and I laughed at many of the responses. Thank you for the entertainment.
Ah, but the satalite and (especially) cable industry would love it. Lots of people will find the money for an internet line but are incresingly finding they don't need to be spending money for the tv part since they can get it cheaper and truely on demand in many cases online. They restructure the costs upward as the networks put the more desirable shows on the more expensive ones hoping to keep people around.
What they need is to start fresh and give us real choices or even more will desert the offical providers even if they can afford them.
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