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But first, it's the Hollywood news banter.

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What's with him?

I am joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

Hello, John. Hello, Kim. So, thanks to the holiday, tons of sports to watch on television. And John, I have to tell you, I have been reading some articles about this, and I am sick of paying for your fun when you watch this stuff on your television while I am elsewhere watching the Masterpiece Theater on my DVR.

Are you complaining about how much sports costs?

Why, yes, I'm not the only one complaining.

Even John Malone, who is a cable industry pioneer and chairman of Liberty Media, one of the giant powers in this area has spoken out, and this is what he said. We've got runaway sports rights, runaway sports salaries, and what is essentially a high tax on a lot of

households, i.e. mine, that don't have a lot of interest in sports. The consumer is really

getting squeezed, as is the cable operator. So even John Malone is like enough already.

And part of the real problem is ESPN. They're the most expensive cable channel in the pay TV world.

And their fees have soared 440 percent between 1989 and 2012, according to a new study by S&L Kagan.

And the problem is, as you mentioned that,

is a lot of those sports programming costs are being attached to every cable bill,

even if you don't watch any sports at all. And John Malone, who has all kinds of issues about

government, saying this the only way it is going to change is for the government to intervene. I don't know if

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