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From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Steve Timko
>A la carte channel selection would fix a lot of this. Cable companies want to
>push channels they have investment in. Everyone who uses DirecTV subsidizes
>their sports
A la carte channel selection would fix a lot of this. Cable companies
want to push channels they have investment in. Everyone who uses
DirecTV subsidizes their sports package even if they never tune in a
football game or a NASCAR race. I think some of the more obscure
channels would thrive with a
At least for the niches I fit into, it never felt to me like the corporate
owners never really tried to research their audience beyond getting broad
stereotypes and reruns of non-niche programming that their niche enjoys. To
follow the bookstore analogy, Reading the program guide for Logo always
I still take umbrage with this concept. When we were promised "500
channels" back in the 1990s, we were led to believe there would be channels
for niche audiences... that every channel did not need to pander to get
every possible viewer. Cut to the present day, and gone are channels
devoted to
