I think various community affairs programs are already forced upon cable one way or another, for free, and would continue to do so under a la carte.
- Tom Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Dan Grimes wrote:But I have another reason why I am for a la carte. I do want a la carte so that I don't pay for the channels that I don't want to watch due to content; but it is not because I want to lower the payment but rather I don't want to pay producers to produce content that I find negative to our society.Fair enough. So, leaving aside any discussion of actual costs, the other side of that coin is that these small, niche, perhaps ethnically-oriented productions, or just plain old boring local Chamber of Commerce and PTA meeting coverage, often mentioned as being threatened by a la carte, would also disappear. That's why Jonathan Adelstein opposes it. Those who think that TV has an obligation to carry such "community affairs" programming would have to face the reality that many of those programs can't pay for themselves. Bert----------------------------------------------------------------------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.
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