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Here's an explanation of why you pay so much: http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/11/06/live-tv-streams-challenges/ http://www.tnl.net/blog/2011/11/06/live-tv-streams

• e40 15y ago
  "Today, cus­tomers are pay­ing a pre­mium for chan­nels they may or may not watch. By offer­ing stream­ing for a fee, con­tent owner could open up a dia­logue with end cus­tomers that lets the free mar­ket decide which chan­nels live and which ones die. But today, those same com­pa­nies are using near-monopoly fran­chises in one field (dis­tri­b­u­tion) to sub­si­dize another… and inter­net live stream­ing of their sta­tions could threaten that monopoly." So, over time they'll lose out to piracy and go bust. If they can't see the handwriting on the wall, then they deserve it. I'll just have to find other ways to get money to the people that produce the content (buying episodes of Community on Amazon, for example).