I have Charter in WI. I am so sick of the millions of sports channels we've been getting. Every week it seems we keep getting more and more channels that I could really care less about and my bill keeps going up. It's driving me mad. They had just added quite a few HD channels for the Olympics and then promptly removed them when it was over, but there is still no sign of Discovery HD or SciFi Channel HD..
If my bill goes up yet again because of this Big Ten deal I've had it.
Thankfully WI passed a change that no single carrier can monopolize a city, so it shouldn't be long to look for someone else to go to. I'm sick and tired of all these useless sports channels.
That's not entirely true. There has never been such a thing as an "exclusive franchise" in Wisconsin. That's a huge misconception the TV4US lobby group spread. The "Video Competition Act" was mainly pushed by TV4US so AT&T (a contributing member of the "grassroots organization") could do one agreement in the state versus going city-by-city like cable companies have done for years. If Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, or whoever else wanted to come into your town to offer cable, they could have done so years ago, but they don't want to spend the money to build out a new infrastructure.
You may get AT&T coming to your town -- MAYBE -- but I wouldn't count on other cable companies doing so. And even if AT&T came to town, it's not going to be much cheaper (if at all) than what you're seeing now.
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I have Charter in WI. I am so sick of the millions of sports channels we've been getting. Every week it seems we keep getting more and more channels that I could really care less about and my bill keeps going up. It's driving me mad. They had just added quite a few HD channels for the Olympics and then promptly removed them when it was over, but there is still no sign of Discovery HD or SciFi Channel HD..
If my bill goes up yet again because of this Big Ten deal I've had it.
Thankfully WI passed a change that no single carrier can monopolize a city, so it shouldn't be long to look for someone else to go to. I'm sick and tired of all these useless sports channels.
That's not entirely true. There has never been such a thing as an "exclusive franchise" in Wisconsin. That's a huge misconception the TV4US lobby group spread. The "Video Competition Act" was mainly pushed by TV4US so AT&T (a contributing member of the "grassroots organization") could do one agreement in the state versus going city-by-city like cable companies have done for years. If Comcast, Time Warner, Bright House, or whoever else wanted to come into your town to offer cable, they could have done so years ago, but they don't want to spend the money to build out a new infrastructure.
You may get AT&T coming to your town -- MAYBE -- but I wouldn't count on other cable companies doing so. And even if AT&T came to town, it's not going to be much cheaper (if at all) than what you're seeing now.