You're not the only one
Well, then I don't want to pay for cooking shows or the Disney channel or lifetime or oxygen or a bunch of other crap that I never watch, but E* is not going to do this. I wish they would just go a la carte but that will never happen. If I could choose the channels I wanted, I'd probably have about 30-40 and that would be it. The rest of them could go in the garbage for all I care.
Ole' Chuck would love this as well, along with D*, cable, and whoever else doesn't own the programming. They have no choice in the matter, they have to carry the whole bundle (ESPN, Disney, etc.). Can't remember why there is little or no choice, but I am positive it is this way.
I was watching C-SPAN a while back when I saw a congressional hearing concerning media decency issues. Everybody was there from Sat/Cable, Networks, Motion Picture Assoc., Internet, Radio, the "everything should just be Jesus shows" guy, the actor who got his head cut off by Tony Soprano a few seasons ago (what's his name?)...a who's who of media.
Anyway, the subject of teirs came up and creating a "family" teir, and boy, if that didn't open the flood gates. All the carriers, including Chuck, were practically on their knees begging Congress to allow 100% a la cart offerings. Again, I don't know what this "must carry" business is about, or if it is something else than the "must carry" law, but Chuck and D* most certainly hate it. They don't want to waste bandwidth on a piece of crap channel that no one watches. But they must, if they want to carry something marketable like ESPN who also owns that crappy channel. All or nothing. For some reason they can't negotiate this or is very limited in negotiating.
Of course, the networks and owners of the programming vehemently oppose because upstart channels would never have a chance to succeed otherwise, so they say.
