Stop Comcast!

As if cable television wasn't expensive enough, it's getting more and more expensive by the month. We pay over $130 per month to Comcast Cable and we only have television and Internet. While some people do not think that $130 is too much consider this: I do not have a phone attached to this account, there are no premium channels, and most of the channels have nothing that I want to watch.

One issue with cable is the fact that nothing is really tailored to the individual user (besides some on-demand channels). We pay for many channels that we have absolutely no interest in only to get a few channels that we actually like. For instance, I like We TV. However, I cannot get this channel (and other channels like the Military Channel, Science Channel, etc.) unless I subscribe to the Digital Preferred package. There are 2-3 packages under this where these channels are not included. Comcast knows that people want channels like these and make them pay for hundreds of unnecessary channels as a result. Comcast wins, the networks win..WE LOSE!

To add insult to injury, programs are getting shorter and commercials are getting longer. Has anyone noticed that while you are watching your favorite programs, you are being bombarded with commercials every few minutes even when the show is only thirty minutes long. Has anyone also paid attention to the full banner ads that run at the bottom of their favorite shows now? I am not talking about an ad that just advertises another show. I am talking about ads for attorneys, cars, etc.

There is something that networks are doing and I really thought that this method of advertising was bad and buried. They have gone back to subliminal advertising. I have noticed that many shows work commercials right into the script. I have seen it on several shows. On the Biggest Loser, one of the trainers goes into the kitchen and asks a contestant what they were eating (all while a specific brand name was being shown right in front of her on the counter). Then the trainer went on to say how this specific brand was good for you and why. Then they went on with the show. I have also seen something similar on another show where they went into full detail as to why a specific car's make and model was good. They went so far as to show the interior/exterior of the car and explained all of its features and why it was better than the competition's car. Again, this was worker into the script and after that embedded commercial, the show went on as usual. There was no transition or anything.

Things like this will continue to happen if no one speaks up or even notices that we are paying higher prices for more commercials and the only one who loses out is us! Speak up, tell these companies that we are not going to stand for this anymore and that we are tired of substandard programming for premium prices!

This is very important. We cannot allow Comcast and other companies to get away with this. Where will it end? Please sign my petition at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/comcast-corporation-stop-comcast-from-advertising-subliminally

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