In TV, 'a la carte' thinking don't belong together, Michael Hiestand brings up a very good point: "If Thomas Jefferson had used a TV remote, he might have cited 'channel-surfing' as an inalienable right."
According to research done by Leichtman Research Group, a person would only be able to get about 20 channels to actually save money with a la carte programming. That means that you would have to know in advance that you would want to watch the I Love the 80s marathon on VH1 when you can't sleep. Half the fun of having cable TV is not the shows you know you want to watch, but the shows that you come upon by accident. Unfortunately, a la carte cable would take that fun away, even if it saved you a few bucks.
