Yesterday I turned to a Lifetime channel at 10am. Guess what? Infomercial!! I cannot for the life of me understand why, when I am paying for cable service or/and satellite television, get the programming I am paying to receive. Instead, I can turn to TVL, USA, TNT, etc. different times day or night and see and infomercial. This is not what I am paying my cable company to watch. I pay them each month to watch entertainment, not infomercial crap. Why isn't something being done about this, and what can we possibly do to get you to do something about it?

Why can't these people who are doing these infomercials be forced to get their own channels to sell their product, instead of taking up the channels I am paying for to receive entertainment?

I am writing to ask your advice or if you can refer me to the right place regarding
the following issue. Like all of us working class people, I have been forced to fight, argue, beg, plead and yes, cry to AT&T, Alhambra Water, Cingular (now AT&T - how convenient) etc. It got so I was fighting all the time with someone (about services I am paying for!) and it was either snap or write it off. But several nights I was up and couldn't sleep, so I turned on the TV to watch the 3 billion dollar Comcast Platinum Package, and then then Dish Network (their cheaper but they suck) and guess what? Why am I paying to watch PAID PROGRAMMING (just like a used car is preowned, paid programming is they are getting paid by advertisers and by me!). Everyone knows that regular channels and some cable channels have commercials. But this is off the hook! I'm paying big bucks for this service and am what am I paying for? To watch commercials! This is out of hand. You sure do NOT SEE THIS DURING FREE PRMOTION EVENTS - their smart enough to show you only HBO! Nor do they disclose when you sign up, what percentage of ADVERTISING you will be paying for! They are getting paid TWICE which in my book is "double billing". When I pay for a movie channel, damn it, I don't think it is unreasonable to expect to see oh, let's say, a MOVIE!!!!! I want to start a class action but don't know how. Thank you for listening and I would greatly appreciate any advice you could give me. Please, I know there must be thousands of people who feel the same way but we have JOBS and probably just spent 4 hours on the phone with AT&T. The cable and dish networks need to be regulated, but then again, their old boy friends in government are reaping the benefits. Here's to the 1% - if Paris Hilton is any example we won't have much to worry about; they'll inbreed themselves out. I wonder if Yale offers remedial classes.

Respectfully,