Why should anyone have to pay extra for programming that is free OTA and which spectrum is owned by the public. It is especially troubling since the public was forced into subsidized digital TV which enabled these OTA networks to air addititional channels. These networks should be paying the public and not the other way around. If they do not like it and want to further gouge the public, they should be forced to adhere to regulatory standards, or become solely cable channels while giving back the OTA spectrum to the public. This is dangerous precedent.

The public does not own any spectrum, it is owned by the government "for the benefit of the publc." Always been that way. the only way to get "free" programming is to live in or very near a major broadcasting area with the new box. Time Warner is the worst cable provider I have ever had to deal with, bar none. There is no competition where I live, other than getting satellite, so I have to put up with intermittant service, stop action movies with 5 to 20 minute gaps, piss-poor to nonexistent customer service and absolutely no recourse to get corrective action. In my area Time warner just raised their rates and have to put up with an uproar from their customers because the service is so pathetic. They are not interested in further aggravating existing customers because they are losing so many of us now. Personally, I will not miss FOX or any of it's channels-whichis also why I amoutraged that I may have to pay yet one more dollar per month for crap I never watch.

By the way, if the networks and broadcasting companies had not been FORCED in to switching is because they had been given more than ten years to do it voluntarily and they did nothing to get it done.

sorry for the length, but I want to see Time Warner gone. They are an absolutely horrid company, with no customer satisfaction skills at all.

I say let them pull their stations off the air. How long do you think that their good paying advertisers will put up with missing out on a targeted number of people that previously have been saturated with commericals advertising these particular consumer products. THEN, Sinclair, and Time Warner can beg for our business back.

Our fearless leaders need to get out of the pockets of big media and write some laws that actually are to the benefit of the American public. How about letting cable subscribers actually choose the stations they want and only pay for those? I only watch a small portion of the channels forced on me by the packaging put together by the cable company.