I think this is great news:

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The Federal Communications Commission is set to reverse course and suggest cable TV companies could best serve consumers by letting them subscribe to individual channels instead of prepackaged bundles, according to a media report Tuesday.
FCC Chairman Kevin Martin is expected to announce Tuesday at a Senate hearing that the FCC will soon reissue its review of cable industry “a la carte” pricing with a different conclusion, The Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition, citing an unnamed FCC official familiar with the report. See Wall Street Journal story (Subscription required)

Not only would a la carte pricing give parents more control over the channels that come into their homes, but it would allow me to keep the Oxygen network out of mine.

Watch the debate now on CSPAN streaming video.

UPDATE: You’d think, given the parental-choice aspects of a la carte pricing, that televangelists would be all for it. Think again. They’re afraid that a la carte pricing would cut into their viewership.