They Want More Access To Your Wallet

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I would bet now they will raise the price quickly. 50 bucks at minimum to start. At some point each game will probably be PPV, but since the carriage fee cable model is broken, there a lot of revenue gap to fill for the people who do want sports access.

There may be some up front discounts to draw people in, but just as you tube tv went from 35/month to almost 75/months in 5 years, it’s going to add up fast. Insert profanity here.

–81Dog

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  2. The only certainty now is it’s going to cost money to watch CFB. Secondly the costs will only go up from the initial offerings. 

    To borrow from our resident Ranger’s eloquent vocabulary #FTMF.

  3. getting to the point of just listening to the games on the radio and/or watching them commercial free on YouTube for free the day after.

  4. The SAs will be employees, collectives folded and contracts awarded by the schools that need to be paid for by the common fan.

    Question for current cord cutters: How many apps do you manage, how do you get local TV, and how many remotes, equipment, etc. do you manage? I love the simplicity of cable, but the cost is skyrocketing and content will soon be missing so facing the need to switch.

    • Cord cutters today should be called “cordless collectors”. There are so many stand alone apps with “exclusive” content. The cost of keeping up with all that is way beyond what a cable or sat package was costing. I don’t see where it has made anything better.

      • That’s what I see. Antenna equipment for local plus multiple apps and I’m at the same price as cable and still at their mercy when the internet goes out. Even Sirius XM got outrageously expensive so I dropped that.

    • The last couple of years I have had YouTubeTV and honestly it’s been mostly good. The interface is more annoying than it needs to be but once you figure it out it’s amazing. You do need to have decent internet [we do fine with sturdy 300 internet, but we’re not using a 4K TV] and for less than $73/month – for all the TVs in your home, no charges for each TV – and infinite could DVR for 9 months before a recording expires it’s as good as there is. And right now it has all the sports channels offered in this ‘new’ app. Plus local including PBS which is important to me. Recently, I thought maybe there was a better option with Hulu, but after looking I decided the extra $8/month they charge wouldn’t be worth it.

      Other apps we have: STARZ [our one time cost for reupping: $39.00 this year] – wife has to see the rest of Outlander. MAX – way too much but it has so much more than HBO – wife watches it ALL the time.

      If you amortize the apps into a monthly cost we’re still less than $90/month. Before we changed we were spending about $190/month with DISH for 3 TVs. And at least one station frequently ABC or something similar was unavailable for more than a few weeks. DISH sucked to me. Wife liked it and the only reason we could change was Their equipment failed and they wouldn’t fix it without charging us to do it. That’s an even longer story, but I will diss them until the day I die.

      • Thanks for that feedback. So no Roku or other equipment, just modern internet capable TV with the YouTube app on it? (I have those.) And you do get local CBS, NBC, etc.? Those interfaces are annoying, and I’ll still have Prime and Netflix so guess that supplements any missing show content.

        • YouTubeTV is different from plain YouTube. If you have a “smart tv” you can down load the app to it. Otherwise, I think you need a device such as Chrome, Roku or Amazon Firestick. We have all 3 (over time accumulation), but find Firestick to be faster and more reliable and high-ish end version is often less than $30 on Prime if you order from them. You can also access it from your computer or phone or tablet if you want. You can control many options from your computer, phone or tablet. The remote for the Firestick that comes with it will also work with your TV (almost always) assuming your TV has a remote of its own.

          There are many guides for using it online. Here is a link to one:

          https://michaelsaves.com/streaming/youtube-tv-for-beginners/

          But there are many others.

        • I live in a dead zone for OTA broadcasts, so after dumping DISH I ended up going with YouTubeTV, primarily because they offered the Weather Channel and HuluLiveTV didn’t at the time. My zip code puts me in the Atlanta viewing area, so I got access to local Atlanta channels, including PBS (and North and South Carolina PBS channels, as well).

          This was all before the Hulu/Disney merger, and things might be different in the future, but I also wanted access to their large libraries. So when Black Friday rolled around every year I would grab the Hulu deal. In 2023 I got Hulu for $0.99/month and during checkout I added Disney for an additional $2.00. Added to the $73.00 for YouTubeTV and I’m under $80 monthly, which is less than half of what DISH was charging.

  5. I’m on DirecTV Stream, so not a real cord cutter (I didn’t want to go through getting a dish approved by my HOA). YouTubeTV is a little cheaper than DTV and the DTV equipment also handles my streaming services on my main TV.

    Am I a chump for doing it this way? I get the channels I want. Yes, I know I’m paying for stuff I don’t use, but the other streamers do the same thing.

  6. I love CFB and the DAWGS in particular, but there comes a point where you can kill the love. It’s kind of like an amicable divorce where you just grew apart. I will wish you well, but will move on with my life in a different direction. CFB seems hell bent on making that come to pass.

    • Basketball did that to me. Hard to believe football would do the same, but the trajectory is bad.

      • Oh, I dunno. I used to be an avid Braves fan, but the strike in ’94 killed it for me. Haven’t watched it since. I can easily imagine how college football could do the same thing. Like you say, college football seems to be headed straight down that road.

  8. Roku, Chrome stick, fire stick. Slowly accumulated through the years. I have ATT fiber here in Atlanta and it seems to do fine. The tricky part is keeping tabs on your subscriptions if you have teenage kids. Thinking about shutting down YTTV until football starts. Barely watch it now.

  9. Has anyone on here that lives out in the country without broadband found a good way to get off Dish?

    • That’s a tough one. Your only other choice would be DirecTV, which is no better (they do have the Braves, though). An over the air antenna might get you some locals. Guess it depends on how much $$$ you want to lay out? Ever looked into Starlink for broadband? https://www.starlink.com

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