Hi Pedes,
Everyone knows cable channels make money through advertising, though not everyone knows that cable channels make money through your subscriber fees. Every month your cable company takes part of your fees and gives it to every channel in their line-up. CNN and it’s affiliates are taking about $13 a year and FOX NEWS is close to $30! It may not sound like a lot, but CNN has 90 million subscribers, collecting a cool 1.2 billion that you might be paying for the privilege to allow CNN into your home. And almost triple for FOX.
Please call your cable stations and cancel. And let them know that this is the reason why. If enough people cancel because of these channels, the cable channels can drop them (or more likely) pay them less per month, basically cutting off their funding and expansion.
The technical term for that is "carriage fees". There are some channels that demand the cable company pay them per subscriber just for including them in the cable package. Those happen to be mostly lamestream #FakeNews. CNN is particularly infamous for profiting off carriage fees - if CNN is included in your cable package, you are paying CNN even if you never watch that #FakeNews s**t-show.
Don't like it? Cut the cord and go online.
Exactly, it’s in the contract unfortunately and the contracts usually mandate like 80 percent of customers have the main package. I heard a while ago Verizon tried to sue to get out of providing ESPN, but that was years ago and I don’t know whatever happened with it