DirecTV to drop Viacom channels tonight!!

[Big_Dangerous]

Originally Posted by jmverdugo

Comedy Central is gone for now, AMC still on the air, as long as they reach a deal before the start of Walking Death season everything will be ok.

I was thinking the same thing.

I really should have recorded the entire second season of Walking Dead, I only got the first six episodes of season 2 on Saturday.

[Bartelby]

in some countries you can get lower health premiums if you exclude certain services.

The fact is that its a case of market failure in health and communications that the consumer is slugged with paying huge prices for access to services they don't need.

Pay tv and helath insurance are hugely profitable industries for a reason: they're oligopolistic price gougers.

Originally Posted by ollinger

Maybe a better analogy than being forced to order everything on a restaurant menu is this: why can't I buy health insurance only for cardiac problems? There's a history of heart disease in my family, so why do I have to pay for insurance for pulmonary and renal issues as well? I should be able to buy a more limited policy, and pay less. With insurance as with cable, allowing people to buy a few channels they watch would be economically untenable, and I doubt cable companies would then have the resources to pay the (rapidly increasing) costs of content for all the channels they carry. Perhaps some degree of regulation is feasible -- the companies are not all screaming that they can't make a living -- but there is far more competition in cable/satellite now than 30 years ago when most people had only one option. You can buy basic cable packages or additional premium packages now. Some channels are sold individually. But a completely buffet approach wouldn't work economically -- the built-in costs to pay all the content providers are too high.

[jamesblakefan#1]

And Viacom pulls all online programming for its shows. Another power move in this p!ssing match.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,3984016.story

[MichaelNadal]

Originally Posted by jamesblakefan#1

And Viacom pulls all online programming for its shows. Another power move in this p!ssing match.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,3984016.story

Viacom needs to stop playing games, they have MORE than enough money.

[Tchocky]

I used to have DirecTV. Should be interesting to see who blinks first.

[vkartikv]

no more stewart and colbert????

[ollinger]

^^ Stewart and Colbert continue on TV, but the online offerings are being pulled.