You might want to scream at Goodell some more ATT.
Thanks to spintreebob for pointing out this article.
Looks like the NFL Colon Cancer may be contagious.
First ESPN, and now Direct TV,... are more victims soon to surface?
Granted, these companies weren’t growing by leaps and bounds before this. Still, this sure hasn’t helped.
cord cutting and cord nevers are snowballing
very few under 40s buy cable these days.
The only people I know who are normal buyers of cable are over 70. That’s not exactly a growing market.
For those who rarely watch TV, cutting the cord makes a lot of sense. For those who enjoy some of the more obscure channels (Discovery, Travel, Destination America, ID, History, TLC, etc.), cutting the cord is not a trivial matter.
I’m also not a fan of their commercial where a middle aged white nerd smacks his head into a beam in his attic and then continues to smack his head, followed by another glutton for punishment .. a middle aged disheveled white woman who gets a paper cut on her tongue from licking an envelope and goes back for more, followed by yet some other white idiot who sleeps outside his tent in poison ivy.
But then along comes a smooth looking minority couple in a nice home enjoying their DirectTV.
at t needed DirecTV for access to content, customers and spectrum. 2/3 of that is still good.
I cancelled my NFL Sunday Ticket.
I’m waiting 1 more week before cancelling Direct TV (only reason I had it was ....Sunday Ticket)
If the Packers stop with the SJW Virtue signaling I may relent. If not....
Streaming is really doing to cable what Amazon Prime (et al) is about to do to brick and mortar. It will come fast once it hits critical mass.
If course they NEVER consider lowering the rates they charge for their service. It has gone up every year, and the channel choices have gone down. I have Direct TV, and have over 300 channels of useless infomercials to choose from, and about twenty that I watch on a semi regular basis. They need to look in the mirror to see their worst enemy.
Actually it wouldn’t bother me if all of these mostly leftist media providers from Comcast/NBC, VZ, ATT, etc didn’t see their generally worthless liberal programming squeezed. I’m ready to pull the plug.
No wonder AT&T U-verse is pushing me to switch to DirecTV. AT&T U-verse is charging me about an extra $40 per month for the same service I would get from DirecTV. Maybe AT&T want me to make the switch now so they can jack up the rates on DirecTv later. Every time that I call AT&T to complain about the high prices, they tell me to switch to DirecTv or pay more.
Ever since AT&T took over my bill is never the same for each month. But I can’t stream because of low speed, high drag, internet service at my location thanks to CenturyLink DSL.
I wonder how many cable company bigwigs have said “maybe we should have lobbied for a la carte after all” in the past few years.
Too late now!
I cancelled my direct tv streaming. It was too expensive for a bunch of stale content that never improved over the months I had it. The only thing I was watching towards the end is Fox News.
I said screw this for $35.00 per month basic package. I went to yahoo and I can watch complete evening of Fox news the day after.
We dropped DTV last month and got a Tivo Roamio OTA. 4 tuners and 1TB drive. $399 up front but no monthly tivo service fees. It also connects to the net and has apps for most major streaming services and integrates them into your guide searches.
Very happy with it; Not missing DTV.
Cable and satellite companies continued to force stations on subscribers that nobody wants. They never caught on to the concept of “a la carte”. I know that’s not the only reason for the failure, but it’s one of ‘em.
In our area at least, DirecTV is awful. Service call response is measured by days instead of hours.
go all stream and cafeteria style choice of channels. Better show by show.
I was one of them despite the fact that I am an AT&T retiree that received a discount on the service.
You might want to scream at Goodell some more ATT.