This one is from the Boston Globe. Sadly, the stats irritate me more now than they did before.

“Even a Cox-financed study indicated that 42 percent of standard service cable rate increases between 1999 and 2002 were due to programming costs. What about the other 58 percent? asked Gatti. And, she asked, how does a satellite operator like Dish Network sell its standard service, which includes three ESPN channels, for $25 a month, about $15 less than what Cox charges?”

I want to know that too!