Things I don understand

[Eilonnwy]

You're American aren't you? If you had the state owned BBC then you would very likely think different ... you see it's like this here (and I'll only briefly touch on satellite because there's way too many):

I wasn't actually talking about "state owned cable" I was using it as a comparison in my landlord analogy. I have Direct TV at my mother's house and it suits me just fine. -_^