I think it's very unfair to solely blame the cable execs, often times they have no choice but to include 10-15 sports networks from NBC, Fox and ABC|Disney or else they can't have the main channels from those networks, on top of that broadcast networks never say less people are watching my channel let me pay 25ยข instead of $1.25, they say I need $1.75 now... this leads to blackouts and the cable company gets blamed.... then again you have the cable monopoly that doesn't need to compete and owns all your home services too, so nobody is blameless...
I think it's very unfair to solely blame the cable execs, often times they have no choice but to include 10-15 sports networks from NBC, Fox and ABC|Disney or else they can't have the main channels from those networks, on top of that broadcast networks never say less people are watching my channel let me pay 25ยข instead of $1.25, they say I need $1.75 now... this leads to blackouts and the cable company gets blamed.... then again you have the cable monopoly that doesn't need to compete and owns all your home services too, so nobody is blameless...