Poll: Are you For or Against choosing your cable channel lineup?

[wonderwes]

The FCC recently supported the option to allow cable subscribers to be able to pick and pay for the channels they want on their service. Obviously the cable companies are lobbying for this not to go through.

I am all for it, since I say half of the cable channels I have are crap. My service charge for Time Warner Cable I think is way to high. Do you think this is a good or bad idea?

P.S.= I used to have DirecTV and loved my service (was way cheaper too) but now that I am in an apartment, getting a dish cost too much in apt deposits.

[daryn]

how could anyone not think it's a good idea?

i assume that you have the option of just choosing ALL the channels, and paying the same as what you do now.

[FouTight]

it's not the cable company's, it's the people that own the networks that don't want it.

[B Dids]

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[david050173]

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Without knowing the cost it is hard to say. I can promise you will not be able to sign up for 5 channels and have a 5 dollar bill. In addition to programming costs, there is some fixed cable costs which they will bill you for. They will make sure they get that money no matter what since they need to make thier debt payments. Imagine the deal is that you have a 10 dollar base and each channel you want costs 5 bucks. Would you want that deal? And why stop at channels. Why not pick individual programs. I might like monday night football but why should i pay for soaps I never watch? At certain level people are happy when they have fewer choices to make and when the cost of the choice is deterministic from month to month.

[tonypaladino]

I voted no. It's already hard enough to get a new cable station running, and this would make it near impossible. Smaller stations would fail and cable would return to its 1970's state with 30 stations.

[Wes ManTooth]

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prices would most likely go up due to cable companies having to hire more people for customeer service to handle a high responce to everyone changing there services options.

Well I said no because I have direcTV

[Brom]

You could vote yes for the poor bastards that don't have DTV. You don't want us to have any TV viewing choice or something?

[Georgia Avenue]

I have dtv, but I may be switching over soon to integrate with modem junx...

Here's a thought...wouldn't being able to pick the channels kill all the fun of cable? I love the fact that if I want to watch Elk Hunting, or Commemorative Statue Sales (They're figurines!) I can. I never do, but there it is.

Also, would the fact that no-one would pick, say, TCM or IFC mean that these kind of guiltily conscience programming channels would disappear?

I still voted yes,
--GA