Your Absolutely Correct Dave, In the old days before cable tv... tv was free. How was it paid for? Commercials. Now a days, you pay for the tv service and channels. Even ABC, NBC and CBS charge the cable companies for broadcasting it over their networks. THEN in turn, they force you to watch their programming, to simply ask for your favorite channels and get a reasonable price to customize your viewing preferences is basically non existent with cable companies or any kind of service like it that charges for free and cable exclusive channels. Now with cable exclusive channels, They show commercials too, so they do double dip, and triple dip, they charge the cable company for the channel which they charge you for (i imagine they charge more than they pay to get it on their network per account) and then your paying too in 2 ways, money wise for the channel and service, and also with your time having to watch the commercial. They should be paying me or giving me a discount for having to watch commercials on a cable exclusive channel! The Attorneys in the lawsuits against Dish Network have absolutely NO leg to stand on with those particulars being brought to light. Also, I am disabled, I am up a lot at night, there's nothing but PAID PROGRAMMING, wait a second, paid to and by whom?? I'll tell you paid by me, and by the people that made the commercial TO the cable network. There's your double Dip!! Because its always on cable exclusive and free TV channels as well. If the free channels did not charge the cable networks a dime to harvest the Public digital TV feed to their networks and pipe it to the customers and the cable tv company did not charge you extra for them channels either, then i would say , as much as i hate them, allow commercials. The network does have to pay for the station somehow and its not cheap either. That's fine with me and is fair. But if your a channel that is not a free channel and you charge the cable company a lot of money just so they can offer it to their customers, bet yer ass the cable company is gouging us further in higher costs than they are getting it for to make a profit that way too. Just like "franchise fees" What the hell is that crap? Its not a friggen mcdonalds, its a corporation owned by at 3 entities to make it a corporation. There is no franchise.... its a damn monopoly because you really do not have any real choice... its like my other post you can buy any car in russia that you want, you can buy communist model a b or c! see you have a choice! *they think just like communists! Un-Patriotic and criminal imo* So i really don't give a flying rats ass what others think about me or my opinion on this subject... you ALL know Dave and I speak the truth when we say they double dip. They technically do more than that with all the little fees associated with the service like the franchise fee and such and the other examples i pointed out. I am to the point i am cancelling my TV portion and will stream all of my entertainment and set up a power antenna and rake in the free tv all i want. As far as the lawyers saying infringement, the only infringement is on the consumer rights for lack of quality programming, without commercials and a fair cost for the service in the 1st place. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Phyck them fat cat corporations!
Of course you can buy any car you want here in Russia... You can buy Communist Model A, Communist Model B, Or Communist Model C. -Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) :^D
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