Posted on 09/03/2018 8:21:00 PM PDT by hapnHal
I'm sick of the Crap News Network and now the Crappers are promoting violence and claiming Antifa is 'Perceived As An African-American Organization,' All of which is totally Crap (FAKE) News. I want to drop CNN from my Cable company....will they do it? Is there an APP out there to delete CNN?
I have never seen a black Antifa in my life. They’re whiter than Riverdance.
Chicken Noodle News
As I have always understood it, you cannot select which channels are in your package. Even worse, the crummy channels that no one watches still make money from everyone who has the package. They are essentially subsidized by the popular channels.
I believe what you CAN DO, it continually petition and pester your provider to remove that crap from your package, e.g., you at least want a choice of a package WITHOUT fake news. If enough customers did that, or dropped the entire service, they might be removed.
Depending on your cable company, you would have to drop the tier CNN is on. That would also remove most of the non-broadcast network channels you currently get.
Probably not. If you don’t like a channel just don’t watch it.
Good lord, why are you still on CABLE??? Everything you might want is on the Internet. Get a Roku and LIVE.
Cut your cable altogether. CNN pays airports to make you see their propaganda, so it’s usually included in base cable packages because it’s practically thrown in for free.
Problem is that all the major networks have niche channels that cannot make it on their own and are subsidized by the channels that do make money. So a LGBT channel or a channel about fitness is paid for by being packaged with a channel like Discovery or ESPN. This is why companies like Time Warner, Viacom, ABC/Disney are opposed to ala carte programing, it would cause them to lose tens or hundreds of millions per year.
It’s long past time for cable companies to unbundle CNN, ESPN and other leftists propaganda networks from their plans. I never watch sports, yet when I used to have a standard cable plan around $5.00 a month of that went to those commie a-holes at ESPN.
For now the only answer is to do what many of us have done - go for the cheapest local channel only cable plan which doesn’t include CNN and use the various on-line options for other programming. If you have time let your cable company know why you’ve made the change.
Unfortunately many of those such as Netflix have their own political biases.
Go to your favorites, and remove the check mark in the box for CNN, and poof, its off the controller. Replace it with OAN, relaxing news and no CNN type hype.
No you have to drop everything. That’s how they make money, CNN gets 60 cents per month per subscriber whether you watch it or not.
Education:
https://www.thewrap.com/cable-network-carriage-fees/
Interesting.....CNN pays Airports to watch their propaganda
I noticed that when I stop at a Burger King, guess what is on the TV the Chicken Noodle Network. Wonder why?
I don’t understand why cable companies pay content providers. Should’t it be the other way?
Content providers make most of their money from ads, without cable they couldn’t get the ads to the viewers, so it’s the people sending out the ads that should be paying.
The postal service doesn’t pay companies for sending out junk mail to their customers.
On Spectrum (Time Warner) “TV Choice,” you can add CNN as one of your ten “choice” channels on top of your basic package. We blissfully omitted CNN from our service.
Their “TV Choice” package is an “over the top” service delivered via the Internet, not via the traditional cable TV set top box. We access it via the Spectrum app on our Roku.
Saves us a ton of money, too. $70 per month (first year) for 100 Mbps Interest + TV Choice.
Heres what you do.
Drop cable.
Get kodi on any device you want, firestick, roku, whatdver you decide, and get the latest addon apps to watch whatever you want, whenever you want, and pay nothing except your internet access charges you’d be paying every month anyway.
Do they still make ya pay for TV just to have the Internet?
Actually that is not how it works. All channels have a per sub cost. Complicated and confidential contracts build in discounts or even freebies for affiliated channels. The operator takes that into consideration to hold down his overall costs.
Even the big boys have to play by the programmer’s rules. Notice how every now and then they have to temporarily drop your favorite channel because of a dispute?
As a mom-and-pop cable operator, there was not much I could do but go along with the latest bad deal. Happiness occurred when I sold out to an aggregator several years ago. When the dinosaurs go out to play, the field mice scurry under rocks.
You can program your remote to skip it.
Comcast/Xfinity lets you be “Internet/ISP only”...not sure about others.
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