On Jan. 1, I bid a sad goodbye to Trio. DirecTV no longer had room for the terrific pop-culture channel among its hundreds of networks, most of which I never watch. And forget about the crummy cable system in my area. Cablevision can accommodate half a dozen shopping channels, but in my neighborhood, you can't even get FX, much less Trio. No wonder there's saber rattling in Washington about making cable companies offer programming a la carte. No wonder the telcos, as they ramp up to compete with cable and satellite, are talking about letting their cus- tomers choose off a menu of channels to construct the system they want.
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