"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

 Well the annual free preview of the specialty TV channels is over in this area. I didn't check them out a lot, but when I did I didn't see anything that would entice me to subscribe to more channels.

What I did find was one program on one channel I will call the computer channel, that I liked. But all the other programs on that channel were useless to me. Is one program worth subscribing to the channel? I think not, especially since the highlights of that program are available online.

And so it went with some of the others. An interesting program here and there, but nothing that would "make me want that channel."

In fact I have subscribed to a couple channels the past few years individually, because I find the packages of channels are not to my liking. What I have found, especially with one of the travel ones, is that after a year you get a repeat of the same thing over and over. Little or no new programming is ever presented.

I even emailed the staff on that channel asking if there was ever going to be new material presented. I give them credit for answering very quickly. They mentioned a couple new upcoming shows, that were basically re-arrangements and also said their budget isn't very large.

I hardly buy that reasoning because this channel and many others are owned by one of Canada's major networks. From a viewer's point, here I am paying extra to received those channels, and they are 99% reruns day after day. On top of that, they are advertiser supported, so you pay extra to watch twice as many advertisements while you watch your reruns.

Providers complain that specialty channels are not that successful in a lot of cases. (And the blame isn't on your local provider.)

I will be dropping one of the specialty channels I subscribe to soon, and 'free view' didn't help at all.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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