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Sunday, October 14th, 2012

Quotation
Dumped the satellite dish eighteen months ago because I got tired of paying for stations I never watched (most of them). I’d rather send C-SPAN a pledge every year, should it ever come to that, like I do KPCC. Right now I can stream them for free online. You can have the rest of the stations.
— Los Angeles Times commenter Ridgeley, responding to a column about the likelihood of sports programming (such as Lakers games) costing more to watch in the future.