Look at the "Talent Costs". Cable shows rarely pay their stars $1 Million an episode. What we have is a system that allowed salaries to get out of order and as result, it's financially impossible to justify local programming and local news. We pay our school teachers a fraction of our "celebrities". As a result, we have leveraged OTA TV into near bankruptcy. DTV was susposed to reset the industry, all it has done is strengthen the alternatives to local OTA TV. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.