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CWA's Jan LaRue to Testify Before House Subcommittee on Cable Choice 7/13/2004
CWA released a poll in May showing intense public support for cable choice and distributed the results to committee members at the hearing. When asked: “Do you think that cable customers should be required to pay for a basic package of programming that might include channels that they don’t want to view?” Eighty percent of the respondents answered “No.”
“‘A la carte’ pricing, the free market solution, would give consumers complete control over what comes into their homes and would help them control their cable bills,” said LaRue. “Telling consumers to block-out unwanted programming they are forced to pay for is no choice—it is unreasonable and insulting.”
Some critics of cable choice have wrongly argued this would be a congressional restriction on free speech. LaRue responds, “There’s nothing ‘free’ about the speech that cable companies are forcing the American people pay for. If necessary, Congress could enact content-neutral regulations that would require the cable and satellite industries to allow subscribers to choose the channels they want in the expanded basic package.”
“Competition and Consumer Choice in the MVPD Marketplace”
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