Posted on 08/07/2015 1:06:59 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
I agree with you 100%.
the nonstop progressive propaganda is driving people away. at least 50% of the market and more if you consider entire homes are turning away.
the anti-american, pro-homo, anti-white push has been ‘all the rage’ for the media over the passed 20+ years... accelerating more recently.
and they’re reaping the rewards.
if tv was about maximizing profits, they would produce entertainment interesting for all demographics instead of deliberately alienating more then half the population
I’d bet that part of the problem is this splendiferous economy we have. People are just feeling so flush they’re eliminating unnecessary expenses.
Everyone says that LIVE sports is the one thing that people will pay for. Maybe, but the average baseball or football game is 3 hours, with maybe 30 minutes, at best, of action. I'll record a 1PM NFL game...do something useful/active for three hours, then sit down and and watch all the important stuff in a half hour. I make sure not to hear/see the score, and I'm fine.
I do end up getting a new remote from my cabe company about every 3 months, because the touch pad wears out really fast. But it's free..
Obamacare hit them too.
The workers who are paying increased costs had to cut back on luxuries- like cable.
re: “I will get ride of cable TV altogether and just go with an over the air antenna.”
Rots of Ruck with that one, since the Obama FCC changed the transmission signal to digital instead of analog, and with all the new tv’s since then built just for digital reception, which will also be determined by the distance from the broadcast tower, too.
I hate to even have the sound on when Aikman and Buck are doing a Cowboys game. Wish I could get the Cowboys announcer. Brad Sham was the best!
Great, and eye-opening, perspective on this. Thank you.
what will happen is new packages, when these companies buy the rights to something like the Superbowl or the right to broadcast so many baseball games, will go down. Only stands to reason that if you and I won’t pay or as more selective in what we pay for that the companies will spend less for product. That means the teams get less revenue so some baseball players 7 year 100 million contract will now be 80 million for 7 years. I can’t see that it will make much difference.
Ad revenues go lower too because if you’re reaching 10 million people instead of 12 million then the advertisers will want to pay less.
I have to imagine to make up the revenues by getting more eyes watching they’ll have to start to lower prices.
Actors. Broadcasters. Everyone associated will see less to make up the revenue shortfall. I guess what i’m getting at is the end result is the broadcasters will find a way to make back the money by doing whatever they can to attract viewers and cut costs.
Hollywood made record profits so it’s not going anywhere. Delivery systems must change. And they always seem to.
If you mean that most cord cutters are motivated by cost savings, rather than like myself, anger at my core beliefs being attacked, I would have to agree with you.
I also agree that viewing habits are changing. My teenage children are not TV watchers at all. The industry does not value my demographic, but I am the one paying the cable bill. Since MTV is no longer coming into my house, MTV and its advertisers do not have access to my teenagers via my TV.
You are right that Hollywood isn't going anywhere. But I do not have to give them my money.
You're right.
I agree.
MeTV and TCM is about all I watch these days.
What about news? I need to keep up with what is going on
Try Sling tv. https://www.sling.com
It is $20 a month and you get most of the cable channels you watch. For another $5 you get TBS and EPIX movies.
The ROKU3 includes a couple of Disney channels.
HBO wants $15 a month which they will never get from me.
Instead of $137 a month (includes internet) from Time Warner - $44 a month for internet + the $30 for Sling that I am paying for. I am saving several hundred a year plus I get a better picture for the over the air tv channels.
You can try Sling free for 7 days.
I use a ROKU3 box and I downloaded the Sling tv app to it.
http://www.amazon.com/Roku-Streaming-Player-4230R-Search/dp/B00UJ3IULO/ref=dp_ob_title_ce
Your tv needs a HDMI connection and a tv antenna like MOHU Leaf. I use this indoors hung by a window. http://store.gomohu.com/the-leaf-indoor-hdtv-antenna-open-box.html
Don’t give the left wing totalitarian ESPN thugs your money. Dump ESPN and go streaming ...
Works for you, but still too much effort for most.
IIRC, NFL now has a an app on Apple TV: one fee, get all games and ridiculous amount of additional content live and on demand.
“ou are right that Hollywood isn’t going anywhere. But I do not have to give them my money.”
Indeed indeed.
And after that, endless ads for prescription medicines that warn of nausea, insomnia, diarrhea and suicidal thoughts ...
Depressing.
Especially if it all happens at the same time ....
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