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Cancel your cable. Defund Fox.
1 posted on 11/14/2020 10:57:14 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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No eyeballs, no ad-rev.


2 posted on 11/14/2020 10:59:26 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Starve the beast. Just Say No to Fox News.


3 posted on 11/14/2020 10:59:52 AM PST by Starboard
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Cable bundle? House wiring.


4 posted on 11/14/2020 11:00:35 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Not only laugh at you but pee on you as well.
Getting peed on must excite them.


5 posted on 11/14/2020 11:02:05 AM PST by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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I only have basic cable and ROKU. It has worked out fine. FOX is not on basic cable.


6 posted on 11/14/2020 11:02:06 AM PST by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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We cut the cable a year ago and have never looked back... Fox is now dead to us and not welcome in our house..did steam it it never again!!


7 posted on 11/14/2020 11:03:40 AM PST by OKC Patriot ("Never Forget"!)
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Unless someone invents telekinesis, you still need internet service. And that internet service comes from the same people selling you that overpriced cable package.


8 posted on 11/14/2020 11:04:54 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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Cancel your cable, keep your internet service. Any cheap digital decoder will show that you still have basic cable. Voilà!


9 posted on 11/14/2020 11:06:05 AM PST by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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Pluto TV is free. You don’t even need a Roku box to watch all of their channels including Newsmax.

https://pluto.tv/welcome


10 posted on 11/14/2020 11:07:39 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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There oughta be a law. Cable TV should be strictly a la carte. You want Channel A, but not Channel B? Well, okay. Pay for Channel A. Don’t pay for Channel B.

The problem, of course, is that cable companies bundle channels. You want Channel A? Well, then. You gotta pay for the Channels A+B+C bundle. Take it or leave it.

Yeah. There oughta be a law.


11 posted on 11/14/2020 11:08:12 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition)
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I don’t have cable so this doesn’t apply to me.


16 posted on 11/14/2020 11:15:48 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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We canceled our cable and switch to think on Pluto TV...It’s free...Has lotta great news channels are including Steve Bannon show more room Newsmax and a lot more channels on it and it’s free


17 posted on 11/14/2020 11:16:46 AM PST by hollywood12345
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How does ROKU work? Does it use my internet connection to stream? Because I only have 160 GIGS per month.


18 posted on 11/14/2020 11:18:55 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Cancel cable. Get an antenna. Get a streaming box to supplement the antenna and use free apps. No reason to be paying monthly fees.


21 posted on 11/14/2020 11:23:50 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
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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...


22 posted on 11/14/2020 11:27:26 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now!)
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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.


23 posted on 11/14/2020 11:30:33 AM PST by Be Free (When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.)
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Not only cut your cable, but stop watching Fox anywhere. Stop buying any products advertised on Fox. Watch Newsmax.


26 posted on 11/14/2020 11:37:36 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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Already done. I’m proud of myself for finally doing something about these disgusting people.


27 posted on 11/14/2020 11:39:39 AM PST by Aria (-)
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Cancel the left
29 posted on 11/14/2020 11:43:45 AM PST by vigilante2 (It's systemic election fraud. Release the Kraken)
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Already did, we watch youtube, real people doing or saying things we’re interested in, except for youtube we aren’t funding the left.


30 posted on 11/14/2020 11:49:54 AM PST by tiki (Electiongate)
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