Things I don't usually say: Go John McCain!

I'm usually poles apart from the so-called Maverick, but agree with him on this one: We shouldn't be forced to pay for cable channels we don't watch.

For the pleasure of AMC or HBO right now, we're obligated to buy cable TV and pay for lots of channels we never watch. But McCain wants to change that so we could buy channels a la carte.

Right now, I don't have cable and get buy just fine with Netflix, over-the-air channels and streaming rentals via Amazon. I save a lot of money over cable and can see anything I like. But I like McCain's idea detailed below:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)  has introduced a bill in the Senate that would let you get HBO without paying for the DFH Network, defying a powerful telecom industry that is vociferously opposed to allowing pay per channel options.

The “Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013″ would let consumers buy cable channels “a la carte,” something the Netflix and Hulu generation has been clamoring for to the trepidation of telecom giants.

“You want to watch one television program, you can watch it. If you don’t, you don’t have to. The situation today is obviously far different from that,” McCain said introducing the bill in the Senate Thursday.  “That’s unfair and wrong, especially when you consider how the regulatory deck is stacked in favor of industry against the consumer.”

For avid fans of “Girls,” “Homeland,” or “Game of Thrones,” McCain is speaking to their deepest desires. The ability to subscribe to HBO Go, without paying Comcast, Verizon, or the Dish Network nearly $100 a month has for a long time seemed like a fantasy.

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