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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by peckrob on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:55PM (#10899516)
I don't disagree with you, but I could apply this same logic to the 50 gazillion channels of reality TV cable was offering me that I could not possibly care less about. I don't like subsidizing them, but I was still paying for them.

I wish there was an unbundled option so I could buy just ESPN. That is literally the only thing cable companies have that I care about. Even better for me would be to just cut the cable companies out entirely and let me pay $20 a month or something directly to ESPN for WatchESPN access.

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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by cptskippy on Friday January 15, 2016 @04:57PM (#10912476)
Funny thing is, I don't watch those channels either. That's why I don't have cable, there is almost no value in it. There are maybe 2 or 3 channels that I'd want but I can't get them without paying for 70 channels I don't want.
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