tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101859138648955033.post8344611214292970668..comments2024-03-16T14:29:04.010-04:00Comments on Lance Strate's Blog Time Passing: Tell Old Pharaoh to Let My Channels Go!Lance Stratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13033954765699126246noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9101859138648955033.post-43770697117854918642010-01-07T13:21:17.715-05:002010-01-07T13:21:17.715-05:00Hey Lance!
Yeah, regulations is one way to go. ...Hey Lance! <br /><br />Yeah, regulations is one way to go. But perhaps, more authentic and more powerful, would be to join a consumer movement around the delivery of entertainment. Entertainment should be what we want, when we want it, at a reasonable price. More than ever before, backroom politics determine which channels become a part of which package... like, http://rolloverorgettough.com/ between Time Warner and Fox. And with cable operators like Comcast acquiring more and more programming (e.g., Versus, Spike, and now NBC U)… they are well on their way to controlling one out of every 5 hours of programming! Do you think they will be biased to favor their own networks??<br /><br />Instead of this silliness where the cable operators and networks have a legal battle on which tier of programming and cost…. let’s reintroduce market forces into cable. LET THE CONSUMERS PICK!!<br /><br />TV A La Carte is a consumer-driven movement so we pick our own programming. Not Big Cable. And it doesn’t take much for us to have an alternative… around 1,000 folks in a concentrated area could be enough to have a small operator launch a scrappy, nimble, tech-savvy business. Join the movement!<br /><br />http://www.tvalacarte.org/<br /><br />Instead of waiting for a seismic shift in DC, we can create change through small, collective actions.Knavish Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16952737423982674808noreply@blogger.com