The know-nothing Cust Service rep tried to blame it on the contract ending, but that happened in Feb. So, wife and I are going to try out some of the streaming services.
Then they must raise prices.......................
You can’t get the local baseball games on Dish anymore. Some people may be switching to Direct TV.
YouTube TV also raised their prices. It’s now $72.99/month.
It’s the underlying channels that are demanding more money from the distributors.
I hate that it’s a Google service, but YouTube TV is decent, and decently priced. Once they go up, I’ll be searching again for some other streaming service.
Spectrum lost me back in Nov 2022, when they went up from $135/mo to $192/mo. That’s after starting me at $117/mo in Feb 2020.
No more Spectrum for me; not the TV service and not their mobile phone service.
BTW, I have Frontier FIOS for my WiFi and internet service. Just $49/mo now, and if they go up higher than $60, I may be forced to go with Spectrum broadband which would start at about $50/mo, which I would be very reluctant to do.
“going to try out some of the streaming services”
I can not recommend FUBOTV......we were very happy with it until it forced a mandatory a regional sports network (RSN) on my package which increased my bill $20 a month. It was really just an excuse just to jack up the bill.
That really pissed me off.
We have youtube tv now but I’m getting impression it’s woke.
Most streaming services give a 5 to 7 day free trial but you’ll have to cough up a credit/debit card # to do it.
Good thing about streaming is if you want to discontinue the service you don’t have to deal with an idiot trying to talk you out of it you just point, click and it shuts off after the billing cycle is up.
Plus, you still need the internet to stream, and who owns the internet? The same guys that you're laughing at and letting them know you're going to stream.
We are paying for Hulu+, ESPN+, PBS and Paramount Plus.
We canceled about a year ago and we keep getting offers from them. Forget it.
Freevee
Tubi
Plex
Roku
I’m not concerned about getting the latest releases. A year or two from now I’ll find them somewhere and they’ll still be new to me.
There was a TV series on PBS in the ‘80s called the Lawrenceville stories I believe. And some of them were about a character called the prodigious Hickey. Thoroughly enjoyable. Never could find them anywhere. They showed up full length on free YouTube.
What is really needed is a service which allows you to pick only the channels you wish to watch. We now pay for a lot of channels which we have no desire to watch and/or support with our money. A-la-carte would allow me to help kill-off CNN and MSNBC and other woke/ultra-leftist TV channels. My money is being stolen to pay for those rabidly-leftist organizations.
I think I could end up with some 20 TV stations, and most of what I support with no choice, would be gone.
I got DISH for a whole year $200 installed. That was in the 90’s I believe. Watched ‘The Youngbloods’ a young folks version of the Mcglaughlin Group.
I knew then it was too good to be true. Then the FEC wouldn’t allow a merger with Direct TV-as if the 2 needed to compete. Their competition was cable and out in the the sticks cable wouldn’t go. A mounted dish didn’t require too much infrastructure. Now Direct tv is in trouble.
We dropped dish months ago in favor of sling. saving about 140$ per month and not missing anything we usually watch except the weather channel - and that’s not worth 140/month
I no longer watch ANY TV at all.
I don't discriminate about it.
None, Zip, Nada, Zilch, Zero, Fuggedabout it.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/05/stream-pipe-dream-paramount-plus-pluto-tv-lose-more-than-a-billion-in-six-months/
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.
Remember back when 2 Satellite Radio Services were up and running, XM Radio and Sirrius Radio, the government allowed them to merge, I have it in my truck and love it, especially on long drives or anything over about 1 hour.
I think eventually Dish and DirecTv will merge and develop complimentary services, the government should allow it based on so many cutting the cord.
I think DirectV has lost even more, frankly. They just don’t care it seems. There’s enough people out there who can’t get streamed internet TV for them to just keep bludgeoning them with ever-increasing costs. There is no upside to satellite TV of any flavor. The downlink station equipment and the launch cost and maintenance of limited operational lifetime cost of any satellite constellation for this type of media where much less costly viable alternatives are available for consumers is available.
I was with DirectV since their beginning. Cost me over $1000 for the equipment and had to set up the dish myself. They ALWAYS increased their prices because they knew I didn’t have any alternative at the time. I dropped them like a lead potato as soon as I got reliable internet and streaming.
Today, my streaming bill over internet is much, much less, has greater reliability not subject to rain and clouds and there’s no expensive equipment that I have to ‘rent’ etc.
The content providers are jacking up rates and trying to drive google/youtube’s competition out of business.