Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-10 Thread John Edwards
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tv wrote: On May 9, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: We have been discussing a la carte cable here for over 10 years and I came to that conclusion a long time ago. If you can subscribe to single channels, and you want to

[TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
What was that about government staying out of free markets?: http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/mccain-moves-blow-pay-tv-business-90386 Not to mention that if everything's going to the Internet, the programs eventually are going to be the brand, not the channels. And has anyone really

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Joe Hass
Also buried in that: prohibition of TV blackouts from publicly-funded facilities. On May 9, 2013, at 5:01 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: What was that about government staying out of free markets?: http://www.thewrap.com/media/article/mccain-moves-blow-pay-tv-business-90386

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On May 9, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: For example, if you judged Comedy Central by its early programming and if there was nothing but a la carte, it wouldn't even made it to South Park or The Daily Show or Colbert. Well, I would have paid a fair amount of money for Mystery

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Wolper
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: Not to mention that if everything's going to the Internet, the programs eventually are going to be the brand, not the channels. We have been discussing a la carte cable here for over 10 years and I came to that

Re: [TV orNotTV] McCain: A La Carte Cable And Get Off My Lawn!

2013-05-09 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On May 9, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: We have been discussing a la carte cable here for over 10 years and I came to that conclusion a long time ago. If you can subscribe to single channels, and you want to catch a show that airs on AMC on Tuesday nights, what's to stop you from