By: Phillip Weissburg

Phillip Weissburg — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:18:30 +0000

Marketing directors for CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, FOX have failed to offer their stations to 90% of the streaming services….LIMITING your audience is stupid at best.How do U sell advertising to advertisers by offering them poor audience size, do to this restriction…??

By: Ian White

Ian White — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:45:42 +0000

In reply to ORT.

ORT,

“Just because you are now streaming doesn’t mean the product ain’t steaming.”

And I think that sums it up rather well. Especially Sky News and the BBC these days.

We recently cancelled Disney+ and for some reason that caused our Hulu to disappear as well. Now we have to pay for both to get one back. With ads. Ridiculous.

I think I would own 5 or 6 channels only if that were possible.

By: ORT

ORT — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:27:33 +0000

These services still farce you into paying for tripe you (if you have a IQ above room temperature) neither want nor desire. I tried three different services a couple of years ago and dropped them all because they raised their price when they included CMT, BET, and brofessional sports crap among other usless-to-me programming.

I despise being made to pay for something I am NOT intredasted in. So. I have a few thousand films of my own along with HBO/MAX and Disney+ and whatever may pop up on Amazon that interests me. I cancelled out of Disney+ when they fired Gina Carano but returned after roughly a year as we have young grandchildren. I refuse to get Hulu-Hoop or peESPN. FTN. Netflix is too much for what you get. Truth be told, all such services are. Too much flotsam for too much money.

They (these streaming companies) still tell you that if they didn’t include the crap you don’t want that those smaller companies offering them would fail. I do not give an airborne intercourse and so I do not give them my money.

Most in my family like sports. I hate sports. I gave my older brother and his wife that stupid MLB thing because both of them are baseball fans. I quit watching baseball when they had their first strike in 1972. FTN. If I woke up tomorrow and there were no sports at all I would know that I had died and actually made it to heaven. I would sooner take my own life than waste it watching football. FTN of the NFL. Screw the Olympics too. What about “local” channels? No thanks. “Special interest” programming? Not interested. “Romance” films? Oh, puhleeeeeze.

Some reading this might be wadding their manties into a tighty-whitey knot of angst at my words. Pffft! Keep on keeping on paying more and more for bullsheit streaming because you ain’t saving a damn thing. You can pay for whatever you want and in the case of TV, for what you don’t want too. Your choice does not harm me and mine SHOULD not affect you. Your choices affect you.

Just because you are now streaming doesn’t mean the product ain’t steaming. Think about that.

Don QuixORTe 😉

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