Same here. I've been with them a decade, and they've always been reasonable with me about lowering my bill. That said, I think that sooner rather than later, the satellite dish is only going to be an option in remote regions. Everyone else is going to be transitioned to the DirecTV Streaming service.
As I mentioned before I rarely watch professional sports excepting the occasional NFL game so I have no desire to pay for Bally..
I have a roku stick and hulu live, my cost is about $100 under what I had with cable and the small simple roku remote runs everything. Power and volume on TV and switches between hulu and prime and hbomax. I finally was driven to it after waiting a year for my cable to quit fighting with NBC and not carry it. Second year where I was going to miss an NBC NFL playoff game was the clincher. I tried good antenna but switching out of cable back to antenna was a pain and NBC signal was weak.I know I probably pay too much (I have Spectrum), but I like having one remote control to watch everything I need. My sons keep saying "Dad you overpay to watch TV!" But when I go to their houses I have to sift through several remotes and get detailed instructions on what to do just to watch a football game. Then I'll call them and ask "Hey did you watch the Wild game last night?" and they'll tell me no, because their provider dropped FSN/Bally. I pay my inflated Spectrum bill monthly and don't worry about a thing. Call me old and unwilling to change! I pay for the convenience.
Seems like every media group (Disney, NBC, Discovery, etc) is fragmenting off with their own streaming services and the only way to stream those shows will be to subscribe to all the different services. So to have what I have with cable tv I'd need 6 different streaming services.
yeah. and that's wildly inefficient from a user interface perspective. content is then going to be organized along corporate structure lines, which is also wildly inefficient and anti-consumer.
Yes, YTTV is a subsidiary of Google and the Mouse is scared. YTTV easily has the best algorithm for streaming sports.
Capitalism, left to its own devices, will erode everything that came before in search of the next dollar. The outcomes are not necessarily good or desired.
Watching sports on television couldn't have been more consumer and family friendly than it was the last few years. It's changing for the worse, but you could pretty much get every single sporting event on the planet for cheaper than you could get a handful of them 10 years ago.
I think you're correct but, living out of state, I don't really care about Bally as I don't really care about the local teams here. Would be different if I was in Minnesota still and wanted to watch the Twins.
Prices won't increase.
Did the same. Hulu isn’t very good. YTTV is better, would be great if they could get Bally back.
