Electric Billing

Wouldn't it be great if everything were billed like your electric bill? This thought occurred to me as I was thinking about how much better our family is doing without t.v. The boys got grounded and Henry has a new "no media in the morning" thing going on, and I'm too busy with life so we haven't really watched it in a week. The thought of cutting it off has crossed my mind, but I do like to watch it occasionally so I won't. Then it hit me, why can't everything just be billed like the electric bill? I mean, charge some super low fee like $5/month for the service, then just get billed a reasonable amount for however much you actually watched after that. Of course they'd have an unlimited plan for those t.v. junkies who leave it on all the time, but the rest of us could opt for a pay by usage plan. I think the same pay by usage plan should be applied to internet and home and cell phone service, and I'm sure there are plenty of other applications as well. I don't mind paying a small fee to have the option of using something, but I don't want to pay for alot of something that I'm not going to use every month. I realize that they will never do that, just like they will never offer true a la carte service.What if I really do only watch 5 channels, shouldn't I be able to have like a "sampler" package like the Olive Garden appetizers? Ah that'd be the life, eh?