Comment We don't pay for it, that's why it's crap (Score 1) 839
Not directly, anyway.
Television in most of the world is utter crap because it is funded by advertisements. The ad market doesn't work by crafting entertainments that people pay for directly (and, if it's not to their likely, they don't). Television shows exist as ad delivery vehicles or as something that resembles a gaudy variation on popular entertainment from state-sponsored, tax-funded stations.
Television will work again only when one buys direct access to a show (or series of shows). Unpopular shows that can't make their production costs back won't be on the air for long.
Advertising can so very quickly debase the relationship between purchaser of content and its creator. That link needs to be restored. Quickly.
The pipe-owners - Comcast, Sky, TimeWarner - can only further distance us from choosing our entertainment with our money.
This works at the cinema and it's the way television should work, too.