I recently canceled my comcast cable TV because they jacked my rate up to a ridiculous level. Internet and TV were costing me $120 a month. I had a hard enough time paying $80 a month but $120 is beyond the line. Their commercials are funny, but extremely untrue. Life without TV was a little jarring at first. “What do I do with myself?” “I need to watch something.” When you get past the first few days you realize that you will live and you look forward to the future productivity that will come to you. I was thus engaged in my new found joy, when I realized that football season is coming up. Now I am filled with rage as I know I can’t escape from paying a stupid cable company for what I don’t want. Prepare yourself for the great wisdom which shall spill forth hence.
I Only Want 12 Channels, Let Me Only Pay For What I Want
ABC (free anyway)
NBC (free anyway)
ESPN
ESPN2
Fox Sports
The Mountain
TNT
Discovery (Hey, I am a nerd, lay off)
History (Hey, I am a nerd, lay off)
KJZZ (Hey, I am a Utah Jazz fan, lay off)
And a couple of others, I am sure, which may or may not include the weather channel.
It is one of the biggest ripoffs ever that you cannot pick and choose the channels you want and only pay for those in a cheaper package. It should be illegal to make people pay for a product or service that they do not want.
Why Do I still Have to Pay So Much?
There are just as many, if not more, commercials on cable channels than there are on network TV. Why then, am I paying so much? If you don’t think the cable TV people are making a killing, I will ask you to list exactly how many ESPN channels there are now. They have so much money they decided to broadcast in other languages. Fox News just started up a business channel. It takes money to start a new channel. If you thought the oil companies were making a killing with profits, take a look at cable channels. They still make plenty of dough after paying extremely overpaid actors and other TV personalities. We need to have a cable boycott, but it is just so hard. Especially with football season around the corner. Maybe I will stick it to the man next year, after I pay a boatload of money for idiotic channels I don’t want, like MTV.
Proposal
I was getting about 72 channels before, for $54 a month that comes out to $1.33 a month for one channel. I will gladly pay $2 a month per channel for what I want. That’s an extra 67 cents a month per channel, if you can’t do the math. Then I can pay my $24 and have what I want, while the fat cats get fatter.