Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 457978, member: 780"]
Educate me.
 
The Big Ten Channel only gets onto the Basic cable package if the cable companies decide to add it. If they do add it, they will have to pay the BTN 80 cents a subscriber.
 
In order to do add the BTN and pay the BTN 80 cents per subsciber, they have to pass that charge along to basic cable subcribers plus some sort of mark-up because there has to be costs associated with this.
 
Now, I don't know about you but at our house we blanch everytime we see the cable bill which has gone from $29.95 a month to north of $200 a month (although this is for cable, internet and phone). The point is that cable demand is not completely "elastic" with demand never falling regardless of how high the price goes.
 
We have both the FIOS and Comcast cable in our front lawn so we can shop and have ... switching from Comcast to FIOS because it was $50 a month less and the picture we get is now superior to what we had and we no longer have the constant interruptions in service we ad with Comcast.
 
This shopping around and the eventual switch from Comcast was triggered by a price increase letter we got. The reaction it elicited was "Enough! I've had it! No more! We are switching.  Comcast."
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?