today's rant: ABC, originally 3/5/10

in the tri-state area, there has been an uproar between the amercian broadcasting company and local cable provider, cablevision.  abc wants cablevision to pay them money.  cablevision has never had to pay them money before because abc was free.  when they stopped being broadcasted over the air when the TV bunny ears became a symbol of communism... wait, i don't know what the big deal is.  they were free before, and now they are pissed because they don't want to be?  why not?  they seemed fine just last year.  what makes them so special?  i can see them for free on the internet, but they want my cable provider to hike fees to pay them for the same bullshit?

i understand why the food network and hgtv wanted more money.  they are cable channels.  you need to pay extra for them.  i get it.  they were never free.  abc wants something out of nothing.  doesn't happen, asshole.

what's their bargaining chip?  if you don't pay us, we'll cut all abc programming out, including the oscars.  ...let's go through this logically.  abc has tv shows so they can sell ad time during commercials.  companies pay abc for commercials.  now they are threatening to not show the ads that the companies paid for just so they can get more money?  it's a lose/lose situation.  cablevision doesn't pay you and the ad companies stop paying you.  go back to school and take an economics class.

as for the threat of taking out the oscars, go ahead, asshole.  i don't give a shit.  i can see steve martin and (kim jong il voice) arec bardwin any day of the week online.  as for your other so-called "programming", i only watch abc for the local news and occasionally jeopardy.  i can get jeopardy an hour beforehand on channel 10 and local news on 4 other channels whenever i want.  i don't watch lost or grey's anatomy.  i don't watch that stupid-ass bachelor shit either.  barbara walters can suck it.  speaking of which, every lady on the view would do the world a big favor if their next episode had them sitting around drinking a bottle of dran-o.  all i want from network TV is law & order, family guy, and CSI.  you've got nothing to offer me, abc, so go fuck yourselves.  the only way you can get me to care about your programming is if you call up your parents, disney, have them un-thaw walt disney's cryogenically frozen head, and let me skull-fuck it.