Posted on 01/26/2023 2:13:32 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
O’Reilly? No thanks.
Doesn’t he post here?
I went to site for
The First TV network ...
Not 2 seconds after I clicked to go there, THREE pop ups obliterated my screen.
NO THANK YOU
“Doesn’t he post here?”
Yeah, his screen name is humblegunner......or is it texasgator.....I forget but I’m sure it’s one of those brainiacs. 😏
NEWSMAX is FABULOUS!!
O’reilly? Such a joke. The First? Never heard of it.
Ted Baxter O'Reilly is a personality???? Who knew???? That sure got past me!!
O’Reilly is a weak conservative and too into himself. Newsmax is extremely pro-Ukraine and weak on voting fraud. A pox on both of them.
The entire cable/satellite business model baffles me. If you own a TV channel, you make money by selling commercials. Why does the cable company have to pay you to carry your signal on which you sell commercials? It defies just about every other business model of distribution, with the exception of franchises. But TV channels are not franchises. The cable companies have the franchise monopolies granted by congress, not the networks.
And people wonder why cable TV is so darn expensive? It's because they are paying it out to the companies that are showing you commercials. And the cable companies also put their own commercials on in the unsold air time and at regular intervals.
The business model is screwed up, and that is imo one of the reasons why people are cutting the cords. Other business models are more consumer friendly. Not to mention, the technology is antiquated. My cable company gives me an internet signal from which I can stream from dozens of streamers like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney, you name it. But the cable companies insist I have their stupid box, can only watch what they choose to air when they choose to air it etc. But it's the same pipe feeding all of it. Why are there channels at all? The WWW has infinite channels. Why does cable limit what I can watch and when?
DirecTV in CYA mode they get a lot of heat for their bowing to the democrats.
check out one of the following totally free ways to watch Newsmax TV:
YouTube: That’s YouTube, not YouTube TV. Newsmax TV live-streams free over YouTube, 24/7. Clips of past stories are also available for viewing.
NewsmaxTV.com: Always has a live-stream up, as well as Newsmax TV’s Facebook page and Twitter feed.
Xumo and Pluto TV: Two streaming services that carry less well-known, more niche programming, and are free to download and watch. Both carry Newsmax TV in their channel lineup. Newsmax TV App: Lots of channels have their own app, but almost all of them require you to login with a paid subscription account; Newsmax doesn’t.
Read more at: https://hotdog.com/tv/channels/newsmax-tv/
What about OAN? Not that it matters, I don’t think I get them any longer on Frontier.
I'm actually glad this was done. My wife and tech (smartphones, tablets, TV streaming devices, etc.) tends to be a constant battle, but having lost OAN and now Newsmax is forcing the issue. The main downside is I get to play "customer service" for our streaming devices with my wife.
“cable” is dying slowly, I think the reason it isn’t dying faster is inertia. A lot of folks seem reluctant to buy into the streaming approach. But fundamentally you’re correct.
Sounds more like they're swapping a Lamborghini for a Yugo.
F...DTV.
O & L?
Rather watch Rather than those 2 turkeya...
Yes I think you are right. But some of that inertia comes from the networks. They are content with the business model. Take FoxNews (or CNN et al) for example. If I want to watch Tucker Carlson, I have to watch it when they air it. I can’t watch it on demand. I can DVR it. I have to watch the commercials (or fast forward them on the DVR). So it suits FoxNews to keep things as they are. They get paid by the cable companies and they get paid by the pillow guy and the guy who sells all those supplements. Why would they upset the apple cart? It works for them, for now. And in turn, the viewers who want to watch FoxNews (or any similar type network) have to subscribe to cable.
It is changing. There are streaming subscriptions you can buy that will give you most of the basic cable channels. But you still get the commercials. You just avoid the cable fee (but still need to pay for the pipeline if not cable than fiber or some other modality). And from what I can tell, it’s about the same price. Slightly different than the subscription streamers but it’s just an app you put on the smart TV.
Still, it’s all outdated. Personally I cannot stand commercial television. I got spoiled by streaming and just hate to watch commercials. I also am spoiled I don’t watch any show that makes me wait a week to see the next episode. I wait until the season is over and then stream it or watch it on demand.
It is changing, and will change. HBO just dropped Westworld and dozens of other shows they produced and paid for. They figure they can resell them to other networks to serialize and that they were not being watched enough on HBO to matter (no new HBO subscribers were coming on to watch a 6 year old TV show so they figured they can monetize it by selling it to non-HBO streamers). And these kinds of changes will continue. Personally I agree - inertia keeps me paying for the basic cable package but I only watch a few things. A few I DVR so I can skip the commercials, and a few I put on delay so I can skip the commercials. But the missus and I have agreed in principle we’re going to drop the entire cable subscription except for the internet. We may subscribe to a new service that will give us some networks but otherwise we get most of what we like from various streamers. I can get most of the movie channels from Amazon Prime. I don’t need Comcast or their stupid boxes and 2 TV remotes.
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