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    The Dish on A la Carte and Capitalism

    The Verizon FIOS TV approach appears to make the most sense. Sports, take it or leave it. Your choice. Just want your locals. Here you go. Want all the cable channels without sports. No problem. Seems simple enough to me. Basic service package - access to local TV channels...
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    The Dish on A la Carte and Capitalism

    A network TV show makes its money on commercial time. Actors salaries are a reflection of ratings. Do you think a sports channel can survive on commercial time sold based on ratings? My problem isn't with how much people get paid, its how their salaries are derived.
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    The Dish on A la Carte and Capitalism

    That's exactly the problem. How do you vote with your wallet. I take AT 120 or 180 and I get sports. No choice except to not subscribe to cable or satellite. That is not realistic.
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    The Dish on A la Carte and Capitalism

    A la carte is capitalism in action. Those stations with a healthy audience willing to pay to watch, survive. The rest, do not. So? Think about it in relation to any of the sports channels. Many agree that the sports channels would never go for an a la carte deal. Why? Because they could...