There are conservatives who would love to stop paying MSNBC every month and liberals who would love to stop paying for Fox; people who wonder why their bill includes a massive payment to some billionaire team owners for a local sports network they never watch, and on and on.
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You can cut the cord, but streaming services don't yet offer rifle shot a la carte subscriptions to each of the channels you want.
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This is great for cable companies and arguably for a lot of these networks. But a typical cable package is either a tiny sliver of channels or 300-1000 channels you'll never watch. A la carte? Fuggedaboutit.
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Congress regulates interstate commerce. Every once in a while someone puts in a bill on a la carte cable. John McCain offered a bill incentivizing a la carte cable in 2013...https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/9/4316688/john-mccain-introduces-a-la-carte-cable-legislation …
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Republicans would never sign off on it, because the only reason Fox stays on air is that it is subsidized by the general public
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That and CSpan….
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@SenJohnMcCain spent years pushing for a la carte cable pricing for consumers.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thank you. It’s why I cut cable years ago. Technology exists to select only the channels you want but cable reps say you can only buy packages as that is how the content is negotiated. Why should I pay for a “package” when much of it is nothing I want and some of it is garbage.
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I cut my cable in 2001. That's $24,000 over the last 20 years I did not spend on cable. I can get my news from Twitter. I go outside and do things instead.
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Holy smokes I just realized I've saved about 10k too! More actually, but I replaced cable with netflick and hulu.
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