FCC Report Supports a la Carte TV Pricing

An anonymous reader writes "The FCC may soon allow cable/sat companies to sell individually customized TV channel packages. From the article: ' FCC chairman Kevin Martin spoke to a forum, sponsored by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee in Washington, which has been examining indecency on radio and television. Martin told the forum that the FCC will soon release a report that concludes that offering TV programming a la carte is economically feasible and in the best interest of consumers.'"

Comments

Re:Concerned?

[mrchaotica]

If you can come-up with some way that Ala Carte will do the opposite, I'd like to hear it. Instead, you're just completely off-base here.

If you haven't noticed, this country has a lot of Fundamentalist idiots. If this a la carte pricing happens, the channels that they watch (ESPN, Faux News, etc) will be cheap (due to high demand), and the channels the rest of us watch (Discovery channel, etc.) will be expensive (because the idiots are scared of science). In other words, the FCC is trying to kill all the unpopular (i.e. not mindless dreck or fundie propaganda) channels by causing them to be priced out of the market.

YEAAAAAH

[milimetric]

That's so freakin awesome! I've never bothered to buy cable because it doesn't allow me to pick what channels I want. This is the BOMB.
On another note. THE FUCKING FCC WAS DISALLOWING THIS? THOSE PEOPLE NEED TO GET THROWN IN THE JUNGLE ON AN ANACONDA NEST.