Posted on 09/03/2018 8:21:00 PM PDT by hapnHal
Probably not because it’s in a block with other channels, and if you drop it, you lose the rest of the channels.
Depends on where you live, does it not?
Up until recently I worked for Charter(Spectrum) for over 13 years.
So I understand the industry. The boogeyman in all of this is Forced Bundling. Your local provider gets all the grief but the prices are being raised by the networks and then passed on to the consumer.
You can’t go ala cart because in CNN’s case it is owned by Turner Broadcasting which also owns Cartoon Network, TNT, TBS and other channels that have more viewers than CNN but to carry one of their channels you have to carry all of them. This forced bundling applies for the rest like Viacom, NBC Universal and others.
In previous comments someone pointed out that Spectrum does have a small 10 channel aka cart but is it IP based and not via coax/TV box.
Cord cutting is real. And if I had to guess the majority of cable providers would love to see forced bundling broken up. Well except Comcast, they own NBC Universal.
The rest IMHO are happy providing internet. The hyper inflation of cable TV was forced on them and passed to us the consumers and that alone has caused so much greif.
Cut the Cable TV. Use the internet and find alternatives. As an employee of a cable provider I had all the channels active. I can not tell you how many times I would have that remote and say “All these damn channels & not a damn thing to watch”
When I left Spectrum this past July I dropped to just internet service. I have Kodi on two android boxes set up. I do not miss my 6 tuner DVR at all. Funny thing, when I went to turn in my three cable boxes at the local office. There was a huge line, 9 out of 10 were lugging cable boxes to drop off. I did not see a single internet modem in that line.
Cutting the Cable is real.
AntiFa is whiter than Pat Boone making a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder Bread in a Minnesota snowstorm.
Hat tip to Cameron Gray of NRA TV.
Fire the wire.
No, you can’t. Drop cable instead and live happily ever after.
CNN is part of a TBS package. The c9mpany markets all its channels as one, and the cable and satellite systems have to accept the entire package. Now, if Congress passed a law allowing for alacarte purchasing of channels, then yes.
That’s what I do, well, don’t do. I am 99.999% percent certain the cable company knows which channels we watch. Well, which channels the box is tuned to. I’m not certain they can tell if the TV is on or not. Possibly a signal back through the HDMI cable? Anyway, before I turn it off, I make sure I set it to food network or something. That way they don’t think I’m watching some of the BS movies that may come on after one that I actually watched.
“you would have to drop the tier CNN is on.”
Sadly, I think CNN is always in the lineup for the lowest level tiers by all providers. It’s the best way for them to shove it down our throats.
Look at the bright side - they look at who is watching what and you are among those who have easy access and never watch it...that drive down the price they can ask to be included in any package when they renew with the cable carrier....
That’s interesting. Next week we’re moving from DirecTV to Spectrun and I hadn’t seen that option. I’ll have to give them a call. Still, 100mbps is a little low, which is what we have now and seems a little slow. I wonder if would have enough power for our PCs, a couple other gadgets, AND TV. Will check it out, though.
Ask your cable carrier for the smallest bundle they have. Most have something that just includes local channels.
I cut the cord completely several years ago and never looked back. Antenna and Roku gives me all I need.
“channels that cannot make it on their own”
Those channels belong on the internet, which is where all the channels will eventually be.
Is there anyone familiar with Amazon Firesticks or other devices that can replace the TV portion of a cable contract? I’d be interested in finding the right strategy for divesting myself from cable TV.
I don’t have cable ... only Netflix and an external antenna.
Netflix used to carry Youtube. Now they don’t. I looked at the Roku boxes and other places trying to tell which streaming services they carry. Not clear to me whether, for instance, Roku carries Youtube.
A friend is able to piggyback of someone else’s cable service and get a bunch of cable channels via streaming for a small price.
I have an old laptop computer that can pick up wify and therefore Youtube and ... anything. I can connect it to TV via HDMI but it’s too slow to play the videos cleanly.
Yes you can, and the final cost to you is zero dollars and if you act today you can stop supporting Disney and all the other corrupt actors.
I found their actual call script in their web page code!
There are a few downsides:
1. You have only 30 days to finalize your optional ten channels and you are stuck with those forever. A friend said it's like naming your baby.
2. The Roku remote has no number buttons so you cannot jump to a specific channel.
3.The Roku system and Spectrum app does not have a filter or "favorites"feature, so you see all the channels all the time. If you never watch a shopping channel you will still see all of them; there's no way to hide or block them. There is no way to show only football games or movies that are playing.
4. Lots of channels are shown in the Guide two and even three times, once for standard def (SD), once for high def (HD), and once for digital.
So, your Guide is cluttered with lots of useless junk you cannot get rid of. The Guide itself is easily accessible, well laid out, and useful. Just be aware if you are on Channel 003 and need to get to Channel 952, you have to scroll through all the channels in the Guide to get there.
5. The Spectrum app takes a bit of time to load, maybe 10-15 seconds. But you load it only once per watching session.
6. If you buy a Roku TV, the remote has a mute button, but if you buy a standalone Roku box, there is no mute button. You have to either decrease the volume to zero with the Vol up/down buttons or grab the TV remote.
This looks is an intentional Spectrum marketing strategy -- dumb down the remote, user experience and features so they can upsell you to full cable. But, for us, a savings of $50 to $70 per month is worth putting up with these annoyances. My wife is the only one who watches live TV; I only watch Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and my own server movie collection (Plex), so none of these problems bother me in the least. 😏 She isn't bothered by these things.
Good luck.
Spectrum started such a program. Spectrum TV choice 21.99 a month. You pick 10 cable channels, local are included
Spectrum started such a program. Spectrum TV choice 21.99 a month. You pick 10 cable channels, local are included
Spectrum started such a program. Spectrum TV choice 21.99 a month. You pick 10 cable channels, local are included
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