Cliff wrote: "Like the delete key on my PC, my TV has a channel change button. I use both quite liberally." There are certainly ways to avoid programming we don't want in our living rooms: we can set STBs to filter out channels based on TV ratings so our kids can't tune to those channels. But that really isn't the point: I shouldn't have to FUND such programming. As the article states, and I have preached so many times in the a la carte discussion, the real issue is " – the ability to choose and pay for only the cable networks they want to see." Dan