Cable customers file lawsuit aimed at breaking up bundles

No one is really happy with cable bundles these days and now some cable customers are filing a class action lawsuit aimed at breaking them up. Consumerist reports that Time Warner Cable customers in California are suing the company because they don’t want to subsidize its exclusive sports broadcasting deals with rising monthly cable prices. The customers say that because they don’t watch any sports they shouldn’t have to pay higher prices just so Time Warner Cable can make up the $11 billion or so that it’s paid for the exclusive rights to broadcast Dodgers and Lakers games for the next two decades. In particular the plaintiffs claim that a “very large segment of the consuming public is not sufficiently interested to pay $50-60 per year, but have no way of unsubscribing from either the Dodgers or Lakers telecast, which together add (or will if unrestrained) about $100 per year to the subscriber’s TWC bill.”