George Shirley wrote:

> The cable and satellite companies, given their druthers, will never,
> EVER, allow ala carte choice of channels. To much advertising revenue
> would be lost to all those sports, shopping, and generally crappy channels.


I can subscribe to individual channels on my satellite. I have to
subscribe to the basic networks, but the specialty channels can be
bought individually or I can get them in bundles. They keep shifting the
bundles around. You subscribe to one bundle to get a particular channel
and then find that it has been moved to a different one. If there are
two good channels in a bundle with 8 others, they will add something and
then split the bundle into two, putting one of the good channels in one
bundle and the other in the second bundle. That was what they did when
they started carrying Fox. The old bundle had 11 news stations. They
split them into two bundles of six.