http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...mccain-revives-a-la-carte-cable-bill/2325953/
“The most egregious of all is ESPN,” McCain said today in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart” program. “There are many, many people, unlike me, that don’t like to watch ESPN and yet they’re faced with the prospect of paying about $5 more in their cable bill.”
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Many people are dumping dish, directv, and cable providers to watch stuff over the internet, either off their computer or on a streaming set top box like a Roku. Many blu ray players and TV's offer this now as well.
The reason for it? The bills are getting too high, and here is my personal reason:
I watch a total of 12 channels.
Yet to get most of the channels I watch, I have to subscribe to the Top 250 package.
I pay out the nose just to watch a few more channels, but I also get a whole slew of channels I don't watch at all. Dozens more channels I pay for that go to waste.
Many more people are going to dump "normal TV" and go with online streaming that is completely free.
If Dish (maybe a good time for a Dirt member to read the following and forward it to executives) wants to stay afloat, they need to offer ala-carte services.
Dish will lose money due to people going to ala-carte, but more people will subscribe.
As the content providers continue to bully Dish and Directv with higher rates, it will raise the price to the end user, and will make them start looking into internet based TV.
“The most egregious of all is ESPN,” McCain said today in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart” program. “There are many, many people, unlike me, that don’t like to watch ESPN and yet they’re faced with the prospect of paying about $5 more in their cable bill.”
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Many people are dumping dish, directv, and cable providers to watch stuff over the internet, either off their computer or on a streaming set top box like a Roku. Many blu ray players and TV's offer this now as well.
The reason for it? The bills are getting too high, and here is my personal reason:
I watch a total of 12 channels.
Yet to get most of the channels I watch, I have to subscribe to the Top 250 package.
I pay out the nose just to watch a few more channels, but I also get a whole slew of channels I don't watch at all. Dozens more channels I pay for that go to waste.
Many more people are going to dump "normal TV" and go with online streaming that is completely free.
If Dish (maybe a good time for a Dirt member to read the following and forward it to executives) wants to stay afloat, they need to offer ala-carte services.
Dish will lose money due to people going to ala-carte, but more people will subscribe.
As the content providers continue to bully Dish and Directv with higher rates, it will raise the price to the end user, and will make them start looking into internet based TV.
