The regional sports fee only applies if you have certain channels in your lineup, and can’t (won’t) be removed if they’re part of your package. I believe it’s a fee cable companies pay to your local companies to bring the local content.
Frontier’s Custom Essentials has most of the channels your wife would want (HGTV, Freeform, Hallmark, NickJr for the kiddo), and OAN for everyone. None of the sports channels that add in that fee.
https://nationalstreamtv.com
I cut the cable back to internet only, after that disastrous season 8 of Game of Thrones, and have not regretted it since!!
The Regional Sports Fee is a fee that you pay on top of your basic TV package deal. This gives you access to locally based sports coverage/channels in your area.
But all television, whether it is cable, internet, or over the airways, is paid for by the sponsors of the products that are advertised on the stations by paying the bills. If their products are not purchased, they have to assume, through their own egos, that it isn’t because of the product, it’s because it isn’t being seen on the telly. When it is no longer profitable, they jerk their sponsorship.
A lot of sports teams have folded for this very reason, lack of sponsorship. Just don’t buy their crap and the sports networks will disappear and take the fee with them. They were started because they were profitable. The door swings both ways. And cable companies are no longer selling feeds to the people, they are producing their own product and are selling it to the sponsors thus having to pay for their own bills if it fails. Not everything lasts forever. Kind of like “My Mother The Car.”
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Oh, cancel your cable tomorrow. there are so many options for viewing content YOU want to watch, and you’re not paying BS fees.
So many here on FR will walk you through different apps and what’s good and what’s on what.
An Over The Air antenna is also necessary.
And you will be sorry you didn’t do it sooner.