Posted on 05/08/2023 9:28:45 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
Dish Network reported that it lost about 552,000 net pay TV subscribers in the first quarter, compared with a decline of 462,000 in the year-ago period and a drop of 268,000 in the fourth quarter of 2022.
...That includes 7.09 million Dish TV customers and 2.1 million Sling TV subscribers, which faces stiff competition from YouTube TV, Hulu+ Live TV and fuboTV.
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
Not that I know of
I pay $55/month for fast stream internet. Have an antenna for local channels and. Roku for streaming. There’s not enough hours in the day or days in the week to watch everything that interests me. Peacock streams first run movies and my must watch Top Chef. Kanopy is a free service that let’s you watch 10 free selections every month. Sign up with your library card. I started Sling but cancelled only two months later when they bumped up the month fee.
We cancelled YouTube TV since we no longer are interested in watching Faux News.
We'll reactivate in the Fall so we can watch NCAA Football.
“Peacock streams first run movies”
Is that the free peacock or the Plus?
There’s always been nothing to watch on TV. Still people were zombified. Cable comes along. “Nothing to watch’ on 500 channels. Now comes the head games like having us pay for ‘packages’ with CNN. Viewers are left hanging when they have programming disputes and a favorite channel is unavailable.
It won’t get any better with live streaming. Amazon billing as-you-go seems convenient. MLB did it’s part by adopting the universal DH. I quit youtubetv until football starts. It will go for 5 months then quit-convenient.
At first Peacock had a lot of free content, but now you need to pay to watch anything worth while.
Doctors and mechanics diagnose the same way. They tell you this is what you need and then they provide it.
What if dentists could only diagnose and tell you what’s needed? Some other DDS has to do the work after shopping around. No conflict of interest. Would it lower prices? Auto diagnosis can be tricky but not the regular checkups.
“now you need to pay to watch anything worth while”
Yep that’s the trend.....pay a monthly bill and then you have to pay even more for decent content.....despicable.
“YouTube TV also raised their prices. It’s now $72.99/month.”
People pay a lot of money to see new shows and live ones. We make do with an antenna and a few streaming channels.
We cancelled DirecTV last February after nearly 25 yrs. $100 for 2 tv’s, DVR and near bottom tier package. We got Starlink high speed internet last June and started doing streaming on an old Playstation4 which one of my sons had left at home before moving out. It was clunky and awkward to use. We put a Roku on our main tv in January and we were off to the races at how simple it was.
On a whim during the black Friday/Monday sales I had subscribed to Hulu with ads for $2 a month and Peacock for $1 a month. Then we found Philo $29 for live tv which has a dvr playback type setup in January last year and Prime. So for $40 we get all the channels we were watching before. Throw in Pluto which is free and we cut our costs significantly. We downloaded the local stations apps which allow us to watch their live news broadcasts and then the recorded versions if need be.
We went from $110 for Verizon wireless internet which was tediously slow to highspeed Starlink for $99 a month and from Directv $100 to $40.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/05/stream-pipe-dream-paramount-plus-pluto-tv-lose-more-than-a-billion-in-six-months/
I suspect that your prescription will treat a lot of ills. I’ve looked into something similar.
We also had a week when all network maintenance was suspended. Our customer complaints went down to nil. With the intention of repairing troubles, our inept technicians were causing more problems that impacted our customers.
Ala-Carte programming. Had a c-band dish for almost 2 decades, only subscribed to the channels I actually wanted and never paid over $100 dollars per year.
We got an HDTV antenna for about 30$.
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Is 30$ the hip way of saying $30?
I had not seen money typed this way. Today I’ve seen 2.
also: I thought streaming was $5.00 a month. It seems like cable would be cheaper than streaming 2-3 services.
This boomer has antenia TV. Not having sports sucks, but for free, I can survive.
Not if you have VPN but occasionally I have seen a block based on “country” of origin with VPN working
Agreed. I ditched TV altogether years ago and would never go back. But I keep this mostly to myself lest I become like the former smoker who lectures smokers.
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