On my Mediacom bill:
Programming expenses, including sports and local broadcast stations like ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC are our fastest growing wholesale cost and have increased again for 2020. Because of this, the following monthly rates have been adjusted on your bill. The Local Broadcast Station Surcharge increased $1.72 and the Regional Sports Surcharge increased $0.07 per month. Digital Adaptors increased by $2.01. Family TV and Prime TV each increased by $4.50.
Beginning March 1, 2020 the Marquee Sports network featuring Chicago Cubs baseball will be added to our line-up. At this time the Regional Sports Surcharge will increase $2.05.
The “Local Broadcast Station Surcharge” added eight cents to the franchise fee, two cents to the local sales tax, a penny to the sales tax on the franchise fee, and 11 cents to the state sales tax, for a separate addition of 21 cents. Then expanded basic gets a bigger bill for ONE team of ONE sport.
It’s funny how the presidential candidates never talk about how Americans are being surcharged, service charged, fee’d, baggage fee’d, and convenience fee’d to no end.