Cable Competitors No Help in Avoiding Mega Sports Channel Fees
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6/21/2013--It's become the $11 billion question
is: How can Time Warner Cable get away with starting up its own
Lakers-centric channel, then help fund the Dodgers with the launch of
their own channel, with the end game eventually force Southern
California TV viewers to foot the bill for the bulk of it without the
option of opting out?
...The four plaintiffs -- from L.A.,
Long Beach, Orange County and Pasadena -- are all considered "non-sport
fans" tired of footing the extra payments in their monthly bills for
sports-centric channels, (their lawyer) Blecher insisted. They can't simply drop TWC
and take a different option like DirecTV, Verizon Fios or AT&T
U-verse because they also have hiked fees in response to agreeing to
carry the TWC sports channels...
(Editor's note: No question, cable tv is a racket. This lawsuit is a great first step, and we need our government to force the TV delivery monopolies to offer "a la carte" cable. But in the meantime, there is an alternative: get internet-only, and pay for Netflix ($8 a month to get movies), watch TV with an antenna, go to comedycentral.com to watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report for free, etc. Or do without a tv totally--you'll live......Rex
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