Call It Kevin Martin Day: ESPN Goes a la Carte

Competition Achieved What Republican FCC Chairman Attempted Through Bureaucratic Pressure

ESPN: Shall we call today Kevin Martin Day? A generation ago, Martin was the Republican Chairman of the FCC from 2005 to 2009. For years, he tortured the cable industry because he wanted to see expensive channels like ESPN sold a la carte to take cost pressure off the beefy bundle. Martin, despite taking punitive steps against cable, was no match for th…