03-09-2010, 10:25 AM
Grieve Wrote:So...if you just wanted the sports channels, the cost basis would be $11.54. If you just wanted SyFy and the Science Channel, the cost basis would be $3.30 - less than a third. Whatever you ended up paying (obviously more than the cost basis), you would still be paying far less if you didn't care about sport.
Care about sports, not sport - sport is how they say it on this side of the atlantic, incorrectly.. Like calling it "maths".
Anyways, I agree it would be cheaper but you originally posited non sports watchers are currently subsidizing the sports watchers.
In reality the top ranked channels are the ones that are (under the current system) subsidizing the unpopular ones, because they are the reason cable is generally sold to people and the only reason the unpopular ones get distributed to households in the first place.