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" 1 - Ala carte won't happen, the networks will never allow it. They won't give up their guaranteed $$ per subscriber. For it to happen, each network would raise it's costs so high, you would pay more for the 30-40 channels you actually watch than you do know for the channels sold in tiers. 2- Taking off the jewelery & other h=shopping channels won't save you $$, it will cost you, those networks pay for carriage. The biggest downside to having them on there is that they take away bandwidth to allow other channels, especially as more & more HD channels become available. But they do keep your costs down. "

" I'm guessing the reason this did not happen in our market is that Insight has sold this market to I "believe" Comcast, so in short they never negotiated for this market because Comcast is due to take this market within a year... This is per three employees I know. "

" Both sides need to check their egos at the door and get this deal done. If there isn't a deal in place by hoops season, Comcast/Insight will lose a longtime customer to DIRECTV. Subscriber churn isn't a good thing. Wake up! "

" I agree. I'm fed up with Insight. I literally have hundreds of channels, but don't watch more than 30-40. And they REALLY rip you off for HD programming. "

" if the cable company would take half of those d**n jewelry sales channels off they could save the money and allow us to watch the big ten which is the conference of choice in the midwest. wish they would take their heads from rectal defilade and understand what the majority of their constituents desire. "

" what a bunch of crap "

" Just another reason cable and satellite companies should go to ala carte programming. Tell the subscribers that outside of the local stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MNTV, CW, PBS, and public access) the rest are up to them. Charge something like $40.00 for forty channels and go with that. Leave the HBO, Cinemax and Showtime stuff as a package, along with the specialty HD channels (like Discovery HD, HDNet) and let the customers choose. "

" It will probably take people like IAR who cancel cable and get DirecTV to get Comcast to realize that this is going on. It is not just about Football, but basketball as well is going to have many more games that people will want to see. Another thing is that BTN does get the 2nd or 3rd choice a couple of times during the football season, so some of the better games will be on BTN. Funny how the Comcast people sort of forget to mention that. "

" Insight is opening the door for a massive migration to satellite. I am giving them until this weekend before I cancel and move to satellite. It was bad enough that I had to pay $13.95 to order an Illini basketball game on Pay Per View last year. I am not putting up with that again this year. I agree with ???, except that there are more than 10 channels that would have less viewers than the Big 10 Network. "

" “We completely understand that there’s a slice of our customer group that wants what the Big Ten has to offer. But a vast majority of our customers wouldn’t want it.” Well there are a lot of channels currently on there, Mr. Ruggiero, that this 'vast majority' you speak of also don't want...but we have to take those...what is the difference here? Maybe the difference is that you East Coasters don't seem to understand the importance of the Big Ten to our region! Clearly this is a case of long-distance owners not being 'in touch' with the local area! "

" There are at least ten channels Insight could dump that would not be missed by the majority of their subscribers. Certainly that would make up the $1.10 that BTN is asking. Getting BTN on now in the extended basic package is a plus. Let Comcast take over as is planned the first of the year when it will likely be there anyway. Better yet, let the subscribers select what they want in the extended package. Too radical, huh? "

" So why is that different in Illinois? "

" Insight agreed to extended basic coverage in the Midwest, and sports-tier outside the midwest (exactlywhat the Big Ten wants) "

" So, what deal did Insight and BTN make in those markets? Did Insight cave and put the channel on extended basic or did BTN give in and accept sports-tier placement? "