Bundled Cable Deathwatch: Sling TV Will Backfire

BREITBART ^ | 6 Jan 2015 | John Nolte

[867V309]

Because of bundling, even though no one watches CNN, that race-baiting, left-wing network is still wildly profitable.

[867V309]

Full title: Bundled Cable Deathwatch: Sling TV Will Backfire … and That’s a Good Thing

I've said it before: If you pay for bundled TV, you support a major evil in our country. Your choice.

[grania]

I get the minimum cable service. It's up to $30 a month and includes two Hispanic stations and not even CSPAN for news. It's outrageous that I can't choose two stations instead of them being wasted on hispanic babbling. And, I refuse to pay for extra stations.

We'd probably have better TV without bundling. If networks had to compete for our dollars, there'd be less of them and quality shows would become concentrated on the networks that survived.

[Red Badger]

If we had À la carte programming, over half of the cable networks would simply disappear................

[corlorde]

It is the ONLY reason MSNBC is still plaguing the airways with their noxious bile.

[diverteach]

It will backfire but for different reasons.

It’s not viable!

It requires a high speed internet connection.

DSL not fast enough and requires a landline only made viable when bundled with phone service which more and more people are dropping using only cellphones.

High speed service through your cable company is only made affordable bundled with cable tv.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Stick up an antenna see what you get. I couldn’t believe have many stations I got. And in HD. For free.

[ChildOfThe60s]

We dropped all cable except the basic $17 package. Reason for that is Mrs. Child likes a particular Louisville station and for news & weather and we are too far out to get it with an antenna (tried).

But with Netflix, the usenet, TUBE+ (free streaming TV, no commercials, lot of choices) we have more than enough to watch. Neither of us cares about sports.

I use PLEX to stream video wireless from my computer to the TV. Flawless, interface is much like Netflix and all the metadata for each series or movie is automatically brought down from the net. Pretty cool. Want to binge watch all 6 seasons of Republic of Doyle? All you need is the popcorn.

TUBE+ if you’re interested:
http://www.tubeplus.me/browse/tv-shows/

Ratings and links for other streaming TV
http://bestfreestreaming.blogspot.com/2013/10/15-Best-Websites-Watch-TV-Shows-Online-FREE.html

[PIF]

Charter service for internet only is only $30 less than all three bundled. Gotta keep renegotiating every year for a lower rate.

[SoothingDave]

How is DSL not fast enough? I watch Netflix, etc. using my DSL.

[editor-surveyor]

Sling can go nowhere without Fox.

CNN & Co are in no demand whatsoever.

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[reasonisfaith]

I terminated cable many years ago and never looked back.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If we had À la carte programming, over half of the cable networks would simply disappear...

Yeah....like Bravo or Logo which are blatant fag channels.

[polymuser]

I terminated cable many years ago and never looked back.

Yep me 2. Antenna, online sources & Redbox has been just fine :)

[Zathras]

All Fox News needs to do is add live broadcast to netflix and Cable/Sat is doomed.

[Red Badger]

LOL! My daughter and son-in-law got DISH last year and they were watching one of those channels. They didn’t know it was a homo oriented channel. They thought it was weird that every movie and show had homos and the ads were that way too. My daughter mentioned it to me and I told her all about it. They have since set their TV Box to exclude those channels.......................

[Jeff Chandler]

I cut the cord and used a cheap indoor antenna. The reception was awful. Then I bought one of these:

Sky® 60 HDTV Attic / Outdoor Antenna

, stuck in in the top of a closet, and now I get several dozen crystal clear high definition channels. The picture quality is better than the cable was. After eliminating the shopping, Spanish, and Christian stations, I still have 25 excellent over-the-air channels FREE.

I added an account to my cell phone service ($10 a month), ported my home phone number to it, and forwarded it to one of the cell phone accounts.

All that I am paying for now is Internet service.

[vladimir998]

“All Fox News needs to do is add live broadcast to netflix and Cable/Sat is doomed.”

Amen!

[Bucky14]

But the weather girls on Telemundo!!! MEOW!!!

[bigbob]

Sounds like you could get better TV with an antenna.

[John 3_19-21]

Not Guilty!




30 channels including 3 movie channels.