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.
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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.
Fubo TV raised theirs, as well.
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
A few months ago I fired directv and posted a thread asking about streaming services.....one fFreeper suggested I just use every streaming service for the free week then turn it off before the first billing cycle.
Then go through all of the free weeks again using a different email address.....just keep changing the email address and never have a bill. LOL!
While devious, underhanded and probably borderline illegal it was brilliant just the same. 😏
We got an HDTV antenna for about 30$. gets all local channels
+ a hundred or so more. great picture and nothing to install outside - sits right next to the tv and is smaller than the satellite box was
I no longer watch ANY TV at all.
I don't discriminate about it.
None, Zip, Nada, Zilch, Zero, Fuggedabout it.
Fubotv raised my bill to $100 so going to youtube tv is actually saving me money.
Honestly with all the free content available on apps through streaming devices like Roku I’m considering just canceling my streaming service.....heck, most of its reruns anyway and more and more to get new content they’re trying to force you to buy some kind of PLUS service.
It’s all a commie plot if you ask me. 😏
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