The other day, I got pretty upset with the cable company because they had listed all of their channels in a brochure, but even before I received the brochure, all of those channels had changed, along with the numbers. When I spoke to someone at the company about this, they noted that in the contract (somewhere in the 10 pages of fine print) they had the right to change channels and programming at any time, for any reason, without any notice. Well that’s great, except they charge quite a bit of money every month and frankly the service is subpar.
No, I’m not surprised that cable networks now have a virtual monopoly, once you sign up it’s hard to leave, and even if you choose a different cable network, they’re probably just as bad. Now I realize that there are consumers out there trying to take advantage of them, steal their programming, or try to bypass their system, but that doesn’t mean that every one of their customers is trying to get a quick one out and yet, look at how. we are treated. In any case, after going through all the channels one by one, I created my own list, table of contents, of each of the 1000 stations.
Indeed, I was surprised by the number of music stations there were, almost 50 in total, and those were the ones in English, there were also cable radio stations in Spanish. With so many options, one has to believe that this is interfering with satellite radio, thus a great contender. No, you can’t take your cable box in your car, so satellite radio is still necessary, but it prevents satellite radio from entering the home market because it would only duplicate the bundled services people already have at home. . if they already take cable television service. The question is; “Is this really cutting into the satellite radio customer base?”
Well, consider this, as a consumer, I was in an electronics store the other day and I noticed that there was a satellite radio device that was portable. In other words, you could keep your satellite radio in your car, or take this device with you from your car to the beach or to the office. Since it was one of those little miniature boomboxes, you could also take it home, leave it by a window, have good reception, and listen all day. However, why would you want to do the latter if you could just turn on the TV, put it on a, say; “80s Rock Station” and listen all day?
There is no additional cost to have these cable TV radio stations, they come with the package, as part of the basic service. Meanwhile, it costs $9.99 per month to subscribe to satellite radio. The duplication and bundling of cable TV networks has prevented satellite radio from entering their realm and is in some ways diluting its market share, at least that’s how I see it.
That doesn’t mean that cable TV network stations don’t have to deal with other things, like online radio, online TV, or a lot of the other challenges that are coming their way, they do, and it will be a challenge for them. go ahead. In fact, I hope you will please consider all this and think about it.