Posted on 11/14/2020 10:57:14 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Cancel cable. Get an antenna. Get a streaming box to supplement the antenna and use free apps. No reason to be paying monthly fees.
Cut the cord seven years ago.
No cable service in my home. Fox doesn’t get a penny per
year from me.
I have deleted it’s app on my phone.
I don’t click links to it.
FoxNews, coulda been a contenda...
Now it’s just waste...
The most popular and in-demand channels have the upper hand with the cable providers, and get paid by them to have their channels distributed over their services. Less popular channels - niche players with smaller demand - have to pay to have the cable providers carry their channels. Fox News is CURRENTLY in the first category, as enough people will make provider and package decisions based on whether they’re included or not. If the demand isn’t there, then this will flip on its head, and they’ll have to pay to be carried (or at least, get less per-subscriber revenue).
The other thing turning them off will do is gut their advertising revenue. Advertisers have to pay Fox News (and others) based on ratings. The higher the ratings, the higher the cost to advertise. A good example of this is by looking at how much it (used to) cost to run Super Bowl ads. Again, with lower viewership, at a minimum Fox News won’t be able to charge as much for ads. We’ll know it’s gotten really bad for them when the time between program blocks starts getting filled with their own programming promotions. That means they weren’t able to otherwise sell the ad slots - at least not at the price they were demanding.
And don’t expect the cable providers to stand up for them. The big guys, like Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, etc. are sometimes competitors with Fox News (CNN being owned by AT&T, for example). If Fox News dies on the vine, they won’t shed a tear.
In short, Fox News has really put themselves in an untenable situation. It won’t take many weeks of poor ratings and defections for changes to be mandated by the board of directors. Unless, of course, they place a political ideology ahead of their corporate interests. And, if they do that, expect shareholder lawsuits, as they’re then failing in the fiduciary duty to those shareholders.
Where are at it is .13 cents cheaper to have internet and basic cable than internet alone.
Keeping the basic cable cost Concast money every month to lease channels we do not watch.
Get a good antenna for local channels (and there could be several dozen local channels - more than your cable or satellite provider were providing) - careful, not all antennas are created equal - some promise a lot but are junk. Then the Roku box to supplement.
I’m not sure how long it would take to use 160 gigs in a month, but yes, Roku does use the internet and the videos would play at hi definition. When you set it up, delete the apps it preloads as they are mostly pay for apps. Then load in PlutoTV, Crackle, YouTube (regular YouTube, not “YouTube TV”), TubiTV, STIRR, XUMO, Peacock, Redbox, Roku Channel, Baby Boomer TV, CBS Sports Stream, Weather Nation - all of those are free.
Not only cut your cable, but stop watching Fox anywhere. Stop buying any products advertised on Fox. Watch Newsmax.
Already done. I’m proud of myself for finally doing something about these disgusting people.
I installed a antenna 3 days ago. When getting into my smart TV settings to scan for channels I noticed Samsung+ has newsmax TV.
Winner winner chicken dinner!
Already did, we watch youtube, real people doing or saying things we’re interested in, except for youtube we aren’t funding the left.
I would gladly ditch directv but to use the alternative sources requires to ability to stream from the internet. I live in the woods and have limited internet.
I would imagine if you cut the cord and subscribed to YouTubeTV, Sling, Hulu, Roku etc, they pay fees to the cable news networks too.
Ok, but Fox’s ratings are what allows it to have leverage to dictate the fees if pays to cable carriers. Without those ratings, Fox loses its leverage.
Having said that, stream and get rid of cable.
CNN makes over 1 billion dollars a year without selling ad #1. That billion is all from carriage fees.
Ads work. Boycotts don’t.
What also works is dropping cable or satellite. If 20% of subscribers did that, CNN would be getting a check for $800 mil instead of $1B. That would get AT&Ts attention.
do you have any way to record shows to watch at your leisure? That is a huge reason why folks stick with cable- plus they can FF through the commercials which makes watching movies great again- plus the ability to record like 6 channels all at once and still watch a channel other than those while they are recording-
I know Youtube TV allows recording shows in the cloud- but not sure the details on it- like how many you can record- i did read though that they don’t allow FF through commercials when you watch them-
Not me. Streaming now.
At one point I was hoping that Fox news would decouple itself from cable and satellite but no more.
You’re in the same boat as my parents (rural KY) and they have Dish Network. Was just visiting them last weekend and showed them Newsmax and they’ve completely dumped FoxNews, but I see a lot of posters here not getting the fact that completely cutting the cord is still not an option for parts of the country.
Cancelled mine years ago. anything I wanna watch can easily be streamed in the day and age!! I dont think I’m paying more than $40 a moth for all the sites I frequent.
And I hope you didn't buy that Roku at Wal-Mart, or Amazon, or watch it on a PC running Windows, or an Apple device, or an Android device, since you are now helping to support BLM ... SUCKER !
Amusement
A-MUSE-MENT
A = alpha negative prefix. Negates what follows
Example. Atheist=no belief in a Supreme. Agnostic=no knowledge
MENT= suffix connotation of previous, indicating action
MUSE = to think
Amusement...
“The act of not thinking”
Television
The circus
Rollercoasters
Amusement parks
Paid professional Sports...Millionaires running around in the grass with a stick and/or ball who care not one whit about you, except that you waste your time and money to enrich them.
...amusements
Start thinking!
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