Posted on 10/21/2015 1:51:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
When my digital BASIC plan with DirecTV went from $60 to $100 I decided I had enough. We now have an HD over-the-air antenna on my amateur radio tower and I easily pick up some 60+ stations. Granted, many of them are complete CRAP but I get enough that I can find something reasonable to watch when I want to.
We also purchased a ROKU device and subscribe to Hulu and Netflix for a whopping $16/mo. Add Amazon Prime @ 99/yr and I have far more choices than I ever had with DirecTV at a fraction of the price.
One of the best decisions we've made IMO.
The same thing with Comedy Central. Nobody watches Comedy Central. Not enough people watch Comedy Central to support it via advertising. Ditto MTV. But they all get a percentage of everything you pay monthly to cable to sustain them. And Millennials are leading the way, unknowing about this impact, in taking away some of that staying power.
ESPN has been vocal in that they mostly covet the 18 to 39 yo demographic. That isn’t working out so well for them is it?
I quit satellite a few years ago too. I watch any show or sports event I want to for free via streaming. Live only, but good quality. I use HDMI to my 60”, and voila, good as satellite.
I hope the system can still provide the programs as more and more people do this.
WOW...that says life as it is.....very good!!!
ESPN’s long time ultra leftist policies are coming home to roost....in a financial toilet where it belongs.
A lot of speculation that Disney is about to spin them off.
But then, as anyone who knows me would tell you --- I'm an extreme kinda guy. :-) Give 'em hell!
Remember when MTV played videos and ruled the world? Their fall came the day reality tv entered their programming and music got benched.
In the 80s/early 90s there were not many young people not glued to that channel. Then Grunge and the 90s depressed everyone and the Proto-Snookie/Paris Hiltons began depressing a culture.
And the collapse of the empire began.
Cage Theory. Embrace it ;)
Liberalism destroys all it touches. Just like the churches, liberals invaded sports to push agenda. There is no thing a liberal will not co-opt and destroy to accomplish it’s goals.
What libs did with ESPN is exactly what they did with Education.
People are tired of everything being “imaginary” and being told they are not with it...
Well I run circles around the finest Fruit of this generation like water through a sieve...
They do not think, they take what they are told and march ahead...
The “E” word again...
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
It is extreme today. I admit it openly. It’s also factually accurate ;)
People hate it. I hate it. But it’s the truth.
Cable/Satellite free since 2006.
Amen!
Today a lot of people are summed up by a simple idea. “I am an individual just like all my friends!”
And thats why so many are so easily led straight into the toilet. They lost, or more accurately were actively dissuaded, from thinking for themselves and simply follow. Like herd animals.Now they don’t even know they don’t know how to think for themselves. It’s Rumsfeldian.
Last time I had TV, Earnhardt had a concrete snack.
You are Completely correct regarding priorities.
Just think of what could be done to correct our impending downfall if the energy spent watching games was redirected toward something that really mattered:
We could All save a bundle of time preaching to the choir here how bad things are, and many Thousands of dollars of future tax misery, if only 1% of 330 Million citizens (3.3 Million):
Showed up at All state capitol and DC protesting fearlessly making politicians afraid for their political future.
Monthly
Flash mob like #BlackLivesMatter -
“Hey hey, how ho, criminal Obola has got to go.
Stop supporting murderous ISIS
Stop wrecking Europe
Stop wrecking America
Stop destroying or Freedom”
A couple of million man hours from 3.3 Million conservatives could turn everything around.
When they feel the heat, they see the light.
Silence is perceived as condoning.
Apathy is what is really killing us.
Meant: “Stop destroying Our Freedom”.
Yep...I think “Real World” was one of their first reality shows.
Nobody cared about that stuff. They tuned in to see videos, period. And now the ‘80s is pretty much known as the golden era of MTV...i.e., before they went stupid.
I’m going on 3 years since I fired the wire.
The savings are really adding up.
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