{"id":657191,"date":"2013-05-09T22:40:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=500347"},"modified":"2013-05-09T22:40:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:40:07","slug":"sen-mccain-pushes-new-legislation-to-dismantle-cable-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657191","title":{"rendered":"Sen. McCain pushes new legislation to dismantle cable bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/09\/mccain-cable-bundling-legislation\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/cuttingcable.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"McCain Cable Bundling Legislation\" title=\"McCain Cable Bundling Legislation\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>How much do consumers dislike <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/28\/american-isp-industry-criticism\/\">cable providers&#8217; bundling practices<\/a>? So much that even <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/time-warner-cable\">Time Warner Cable&#8217;s<\/a> CEO has <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/03\/time-warner-cable-ceo-interview-aereo\/\">started to publicly fret about a backlash<\/a>. Republican Senator John McCain is determined to do something about overly expensive cable bundles, however, and <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130509\/can-congress-blow-up-the-tv-bundle-john-mccain-is-going-to-try-again\/\"><em>AllThingsD<\/em> reports<\/a> that he&#8217;s pushing legislation that would &#8220;force pay TV operators to break up the programming bundles, by offering channels in smaller groups or on an individual basis.&#8221; While this sounds good at first, <em>AllThingsD<\/em> points out that it may not do much to lower consumers&#8217; monthly bills since popular <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/cable\">cable<\/a> stations such as ESPN are subsidized by less popular stations. Thus, if cable providers are forced to offer channels individually then ESPN could charge around $20 a month for a standalone subscription.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/rKeJHB3AY2g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much do consumers dislike cable providers&#8217; bundling practices? So much that even Time Warner Cable&#8217;s CEO has started to publicly fret about a backlash. Republican Senator John McCain is determined to do something about overly expensive cable bundles, however, and AllThingsD reports that he&#8217;s pushing legislation that would &#8220;force pay TV operators to break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}