deeznutz1245
Connecticut: our chimps are stealin yo' faces.
+483|6918|Connecticut
Ok this will get serious, I promise. I am pissed off that I have to pay for 2 freaking Spanish channels every month. I want to know if there is some sort of way I can legally put the screw to my cable company. I want cable so I understand that I am not forced to get it, but on the same token, why should I be forced to pay for two channels that I cant understand. Make that 4 if you include MTV and BET. They offer no choice in the matter, you have to get the Spanish channels. Is there some sort of loophole or angle I can work to get a bill reduction? Please offer any advise.
Malloy must go
GorillaTicTacs
Member
+231|6798|Kyiv, Ukraine
'Fraid not, you signed a contract for a "package" of channels.  Arguably, your bill would be identical or even HIGHER without those channels riding along on your airwaves that are piped to your house.  You don't pay per channel UNLESS that channel is a pay channel, ie, does not advertise to pay for itself but instead relies on specific prescriptions (i.e. HBO, Showtime, Playboy, etc.).

Most other channels that have basic advertising and programming, like your MTv's and your BET, aren't paid for by the cable bill you pay.  They recieve almost nothing, and in fact may pay your cable company to carry the channel (reducing your bill).  Only certain advertising channels will be paid for by the cable company on the basis that they help sell cable packages, ESPN being notoriously one of the few that does this.

Anyways, sounds like it is a basic problem of "angry white man" getting offended because...ummm...because of nothing.  You realize you can simply program your clicker to blank out or skip right by those channels you find objectionable...but if you want, you can scream to the FCC and get the federal government to take even more of our freedom in the name of establishing the American Taliban.  I'll start making a list of books we should burn and objectionable artists we need to summarily execute while we're at it...
Retalliation[1337]
Robin Hood ---> "u got arrownd"
+51|6899|Belgium
hehe so simply ure kinda screwed
deeznutz1245
Connecticut: our chimps are stealin yo' faces.
+483|6918|Connecticut
I think you have jumped to conclusions about me buddy. Ready aim fire, not ready fire aim. It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more. It got me to thinking. Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay? If that makes me an angry white man then so be it. Pardon me for not liking to pay for services rendered I do not want or have the ability to understand (spanish and the red sox)
Malloy must go
Agent_Dung_Bomb
Member
+302|7161|Salt Lake City

Didn't the Supreme Court just rule on something regarding these forced packages, and indicating that cable companies needed to offer ale carte channel availability?
ghettoperson
Member
+1,943|7074

deeznutz1245 wrote:

I think you have jumped to conclusions about me buddy. Ready aim fire, not ready fire aim. It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more. It got me to thinking. Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay? If that makes me an angry white man then so be it. Pardon me for not liking to pay for services rendered I do not want or have the ability to understand (spanish and the red sox)
That made me laugh. I'm not sure if you appreciate the amusement in it though.
deeznutz1245
Connecticut: our chimps are stealin yo' faces.
+483|6918|Connecticut

ghettoperson wrote:

deeznutz1245 wrote:

I think you have jumped to conclusions about me buddy. Ready aim fire, not ready fire aim. It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more. It got me to thinking. Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay? If that makes me an angry white man then so be it. Pardon me for not liking to pay for services rendered I do not want or have the ability to understand (spanish and the red sox)
That made me laugh. I'm not sure if you appreciate the amusement in it though.
lol I do
Malloy must go
|=-sL-=|.Cujucuyo.
Member
+26|6808|California

deeznutz1245 wrote:

Ok this will get serious, I promise. I am pissed off that I have to pay for 2 freaking Spanish channels every month. I want to know if there is some sort of way I can legally put the screw to my cable company. I want cable so I understand that I am not forced to get it, but on the same token, why should I be forced to pay for two channels that I cant understand. Make that 4 if you include MTV and BET. They offer no choice in the matter, you have to get the Spanish channels. Is there some sort of loophole or angle I can work to get a bill reduction? Please offer any advise.
Sue? Man just buy direct TV and choose the channels you want, we all get channels we don't understand, chinese, korean, japanese, etc. Don't get pissed off for 2 channels, its just ridiculous .
ncc6206
=BIG= BAD AND UGLY
+36|6904
The Supreme Court has started hearing the case of allowing al la carte packaging for cable subscribers. Also, some of the smaller companies have already started adding al la carte channels but they have not tried allowing channel removals yet.
ATG
Banned
+5,233|6954|Global Command

deeznutz1245 wrote:

Ok this will get serious, I promise. I am pissed off that I have to pay for 2 freaking Spanish channels every month. I want to know if there is some sort of way I can legally put the screw to my cable company. I want cable so I understand that I am not forced to get it, but on the same token, why should I be forced to pay for two channels that I cant understand. Make that 4 if you include MTV and BET. They offer no choice in the matter, you have to get the Spanish channels. Is there some sort of loophole or angle I can work to get a bill reduction? Please offer any advise.
You can't understand BET?
cablecopulate
Member
+449|7163|Massachusetts.

deeznutz1245 wrote:

I think you have jumped to conclusions about me buddy. Ready aim fire, not ready fire aim. It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more. It got me to thinking. Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay? If that makes me an angry white man then so be it. Pardon me for not liking to pay for services rendered I do not want or have the ability to understand (spanish and the red sox)
So you live in New England and you're upset they took away a channel that airs the Yankees for a channel that airs the Red Sox?
Masques
Black Panzer Party
+184|7147|Eastern PA

deeznutz1245 wrote:

Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay?
Because you signed the contract.
djphetal
Go Ducks.
+346|6761|Oregon

deeznutz1245 wrote:

Ok this will get serious, I promise. I am pissed off that I have to pay for 2 freaking Spanish channels every month. I want to know if there is some sort of way I can legally put the screw to my cable company. I want cable so I understand that I am not forced to get it, but on the same token, why should I be forced to pay for two channels that I cant understand. Make that 4 if you include MTV and BET. They offer no choice in the matter, you have to get the Spanish channels. Is there some sort of loophole or angle I can work to get a bill reduction? Please offer any advise.
Dude no... spend one day... on whole day... watching them.


you will realize the beauty of Univision.
smtt686
this is the best we can do?
+95|7056|USA
just block them from your favorite channels list. 

o btw, i love the univision ladies and i don't even speak the spanish
SuperSlowYo
slow as you go
+124|6985|Canaduhhh.. West Toast
there is no love from the cable companies... thats why if my cable goes out for more than 10 minutes i call the company and demand a credit to my account... petty yes but like i already said there is no love from them and im happy to get a couple dollars back from any faceless corporation
INFERNO552
One shot wonder
+62|6865|canada
switch cable companies or get sattlelite or direct tv, other than that the best you can do is block the channel but still be paying for it
BVC
Member
+325|7120
Uhhh...just don't watch them?
ownership10
Member
+9|7158

deeznutz1245 wrote:

It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more.
that sounds like best deal of your life, u should pay extra to get rid of the yankees and then possibly extra again for the red sox....GO SOX.
Kmar
Truth is my Bitch
+5,695|7026|132 and Bush

Learn Spanish, the women on those channels are hot.
Xbone Stormsurgezz
[F7F7]KiNG_KaDaFFHi
Why walk when you can dance?
+77|7012|sWEEDen
Never trust the law to solve your problems....it just wont. ...turn the Batman-searchlight on.
deeznutz1245
Connecticut: our chimps are stealin yo' faces.
+483|6918|Connecticut

cablecopulate wrote:

deeznutz1245 wrote:

I think you have jumped to conclusions about me buddy. Ready aim fire, not ready fire aim. It all started when they took away the YES network (NY Yankees channel) and gave me the NESN channel (Red Sox). If you live in New England you could appreciate the severity of the situation a little more. It got me to thinking. Why can they make those changes at will and we are forced to continue to pay? If that makes me an angry white man then so be it. Pardon me for not liking to pay for services rendered I do not want or have the ability to understand (spanish and the red sox)
So you live in New England and you're upset they took away a channel that airs the Yankees for a channel that airs the Red Sox?
Well yes, I am a Yankee's fan. I live on the west side of the CT river, Im closer to NY than to Boston. Yanks fan when I was in the womb buddy.
Malloy must go
d3athwi5h4
insert clever title here
+59|6938|Kickapoo
You need the Spanish channels how else are you going to watch lucha libre at 3:30 every Sunday morning?  Super Porky FTW!!!
Blehm98
conservative hatemonger
+150|6888|meh-land
meh, just make a cable descrambler, its illegal and if you get caught you can get in kind of big trouble but you get all cable for free...
BeerzGod
Hooray Beer!
+94|6995|United States
You could always cancel your cable, buy a short piece of coax cable, buy a splitter, get a 24ft. ladder, climb the ladder, visually trace a cable line from a neighbors house to the cable junction box on the pole, unhook their cable, screw into the Out part of the splitter, screw the cable going to your house into the Out part of the splitter, use one end of the jumper coax and screw into where you unscrewed the neighbors, and then take the other in and screw into the In part of the splitter. Free cable. The only way anyone will ever know is if someone climbs the pole and looks at it.
deeznutz1245
Connecticut: our chimps are stealin yo' faces.
+483|6918|Connecticut

BeerzGod wrote:

You could always cancel your cable, buy a short piece of coax cable, buy a splitter, get a 24ft. ladder, climb the ladder, visually trace a cable line from a neighbors house to the cable junction box on the pole, unhook their cable, screw into the Out part of the splitter, screw the cable going to your house into the Out part of the splitter, use one end of the jumper coax and screw into where you unscrewed the neighbors, and then take the other in and screw into the In part of the splitter. Free cable. The only way anyone will ever know is if someone climbs the pole and looks at it.
Or if they wonder why there is a cable traveling a quarter of a mile through the woods from their house to mine, because that is the distance of my closest neighbor.
Malloy must go

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