Thanks for the link. It’s a little bit convoluted right now on what’s really ‘legit’ to me and what’s just ad supported.
I saw the klowdtv link elsewhere and it seemed like a non-official source, which may lead to the malware thing. If not, then good.
I saw the klowdtv link elsewhere and it seemed like a non-official source, which may lead to the malware thing. If not, then good.
One America News Network is owned by Herring Networks. KlowdTV is owned by Herring Networks. If you want to support OAN the best way to do that is to do that is to subscribe to one of the plans available from KlowdTV. They are currently in their infancy and some of the “channels” available are a little bit hokey at this point, and the features keep changing and are a little confusing. I checked our account just now and we are paying $2.50 a month for the same 64 channels that they are currently in their free account. I don't know that there are any other differences...
Basically, all of the subscription services have specials. We are currently getting every Amazon Prime premium “channel” that we are subscribing to for $1 a month for two months. I turn off auto renewal as soon as the specials are up, and usually some other specials become available. We got 6 months for Starz for $20. We turn off autorenewal on that before the special is up. Showtime had a similar deal. The ad supported Hulu is a dollar a month for a year. Since the lineup on the premium channels does not change that much, I like subscribing to them for a month or two while they are having a special, I drop them and coming back when they have another good special.
We started out streaming when DirecTV Now first became available in 2016. It offered basically all of the channels we were getting in the package from Comcast for less money and we were able to watch them at both of our houses without paying twice. They gave away AppleTV or FireTV streaming devices depending on how many months you signed up for initially and the premium services that you subscribed to.
I believe that our package with HBO, TCM, and a few other premium services was $45 a month and it was advertised that the price was not going to go up if you got in early. We subscribed the first day it became available to the public. The service was unreliable compared to Cable, but not too bad and they began offering limited DVR services.
When AT&T took over and the price was jacked up every couple of months until it cost us over $80 a month, about as much as Cable except that we could watch at both of our houses without paying twice.
But then AT&T Now became available for $19.95 a month which had many fewer channels and no DVR service, but it still had our favorite TCM, the FOX channels and Hallmark, etc... We had our own DVR type device that we could record the stream from so that was not a huge issue for us. The constantly improving Audials recording program became available at about that time as well. But that AT&T Now was discontinued by because so many of their legacy subscribers who had come from DirecTV were switching to their own competing service.
After AT&T now was discontinued, we switched to SlingTV which had many bundles and was quite customizable... for our cable type watching experience. We are currently paying $55 a month for SlingTV but our plan has a ridiculous number of channels, generous DVR features that work well and it can be streamed to 3 devices at the same time, so we share it with my parents. And what is not included we get through other providers such as Amazon and also directly from the premium channels themselves such as HBO, Starz, Showtime, etc...