Yea my wife and I just have Frndly for a year at the price of one month of some. Get Game Shows, Old Shows, Hallmark, Lifetime. Can just catch sports on another app if we need.
This is literally my use case as well. I watch the news, the NFL, college football and college basketball. I can't remember the last time I actually watched anything else that wasn't from a streaming service.
I bet if you posted your monthly expenses you would get a lot of people who could have fun at what you spend your time and money on!
At least you can still just click a few things and cancel with no penalties, and no equipment to return, but how long until that convenience isn't worth the prices difference anymore.
I notcied they reduced the price of YouTube Premium back to $11.99. Must have seen a drop-off after the big increase.
I've always heard it's ESPN and other sports programming that drives the majority of these increases. It'll be interesting to see how much the NFL Sunday Ticket will eventually cost.
or local channels, especially for news (which is usually more relevant than the national news networks), weather, and sports.
I was looking at that because I had all of these services when they came out and thought look at how much money I am saving by getting rid of Fios TV. But having Paramount, Peacock, HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, those add up very quickly. We have cut out a lot of those
Yes I still get Hulu, Disney+ through Verizon which is what we watch mostly
This is also how I use YTTV. I time shift everything except sports. If I want to watch the local news I'll usually just wait a few minutes to get into it, then I can skip the commercials.
Yes it seems that paramount and peacock are both doing that. Having some shows that would have been on their broadcast channel but make it exclusive to the streamingEspecially when you consider that you must pay for Internet access on top of all these streaming services. At least with cable companies, you usually get a bundle price when you get both—which almost always ends up being less money per month in the end.
The problem of course is that most of these media companies are putting content on their streaming service that isn't even available on their respective cable channels. I watch several shows that used to be on broadcast channels that are now streaming only (SEAL Team, for example) so that they can include a few swear words and side-boob shots.
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