Thanks to spintreebob for pointing out this article.
Live sports is the only thing keeping cable/satellite companies subscriptions from completely crashing. The NFL is the biggest TV sport by a mile, and many only keep it for the Sunday ticket. You can also get most of your local games with a cheap antenna.
Expect the left-wing media complex to continue to cover for their SJW allies. Much like newspapers corporations, they will never admit the full truth when they can plausibly omit any self-incriminating factors.
Where’s that NFL Baghdad Bob gif ?
In what way does it make sense for a phone company to be connected with a satellite TV company?
Amazing how hurricanes are blamed for EVERYTHING nowadays.
Our one indulgence was the big DirecTV package which cost us $152 per month. Since AT&T bought them out our monthly bill is now $254 per month with no changes and they gave us no warning about the stepped price increases.
Our plan ends in two months and we are dropping DirecTV completely.
I’d go back in a minute if they offered ala carte or design your own packages and not a 4 year contract.
Att quotes one rate and bills $50 higher. They force you to waste several hours every month getting them to correct your bill. Each time they finally confirm the correct lower quoted rate and they promise to fix it for future. But it never gets fixed. ATT is a huge consumer fraud and deserves to die die die!
I have news for ATT. It’s not hurricanes or the NFL that killing DTV it’s ATT. I have been a DTV subscriber for 17 years and often recommended it to people because of the video quality, but mostly because of their great customer service. Hands down the best in the business. Quick, polite, spoke English, helped you with your problems with professionalism. Their website was well done too. Now they are part of ATT and when you call you get Maria or Bob in Bangladesh, or a snarky robot. It’s impossible to talk to an English first language human. And the website is now a unified site meaning an ATT site which sucks. I was on it about an hour ago and gave up trying to find the information I wanted. Instead I started researching streaming services. My problem is no DVR, no subscription. I watch TV on my schedule and as of now there are no streaming devices or services that offer me the station I want with DVR services of some kind. If there were I would be gone tonight. ATT is killing DTV plain and simple.
The whole industry may be coming to the realization they are in trouble.
Late last month I want to my local cable office to drop a couple of the premium channels. That left me with the basic and advanced tiers and Internet.
The clerk shocked the heck out of me — told me she would bundle my cable and Internet to LOWER MY BILL. End result was a $50 drop in my future billings. That, with the removal of the 2 premiums, makes for a grand reduction of about $80. She did say that the reduction would go for a year and I could check then to see what future ‘bundles’ might be available.
I told her that that was the first time in 18 years the cable co intentionally lowered my bill.
We’re out. Why would anyone stream this crap?
We cancelled our DirecTV and NFL Package today.
Everyone is cutting the cable. This model is going to go away entirely, so why anybody is surprised is beyond me.
Everyone else is piling in now too, even YouTube is trying to sell me TV now.
Game of Throwns fault.
Add 1 more come january