[Cialug] OT: A la carte cable

[Dave Weis]

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> Ehhh ... I have never gotten cable or satellite because I never felt I should subsidize channels in which I have no interest.
> They are not entitled to my money to support their programming. That should be my decision, not theirs. An all or nothing choice means they get nothing from me. It's almost like pre-installing Windows and not giving me the option to have Linux or other OS pre-installed. :-)

You know that some of the unpopular things like Home Shopping subsidize 
the pricing of the rest of the channels by paying to be carried?

dave