Marc Radle
Hero
I still have cable and honestly don’t see dropping it anytime in the near future …
Hulu and other services have some shows that are exclusive to the streaming side of things, so they would not be available to cable-only customers.Some of it, yeah, Though the AMC and Hulu stuff definitely has an expiration date with my cable sub.
Yes, also true.Hulu and other services have some shows that are exclusive to the streaming side of things, so they would not be available to cable-only customers.
We debate deleting Disney+ every month. They've doled out decent Marvel content just often enough to keep us subscribed most of the year. (The Star Wars content, if anything, has worked to actively drive us away, other than Mandalorian and Andor.)I have deliberated about cutting Disney+ as they just don't seem to have stuff I am interested in, but my spouse loves it so we keep it.
They have a good amount of quality content, but they make it really hard to discover it. It's astonishing how bad their apps are, even after the recent revamp.Only reason I keep Amazon Prime is for the free shipping.
Most of the streamers are going to have an ad-supported tier before the end of 2023.So I suppose I'm one that is also considering cutting the cord. If they move to have advertising in there for those who pay subscriptions though, it would become a no brainer. One reason to cut Netflix.
Oh, a lot of the stuff Chapek is getting dinged for are the results of strategies that precede him. But if you get paid $11 bajillion a year, it's your job to make changes when necessary and get thrown overboard when things go wrong. No one needs to weep for him.No idea to the drama behind the scenes but Chapek has a whiff of fall guy.
Yeap, I cant imagine too many people get excited for deep catalogs that include Quantum Leap and Rockford Files. I mean, nostalgia is fun, but it wears thing quickly.I miss early on in the Streaming Age when everything was on two or three streaming services. I think the property owners are taking big risks thinking they own enough content to go it their own way.
Apparently the biggest costs in most cable bills are ESPN and Fox News, both of which have must-carry clauses in their contracts with cable providers. (And it's why people wanting to boycott Fox News advertisers don't have much of an impact: Ad revenue is a tiny portion of their revenue.)I had cable for decades, but when I got married I was happy to dump it -- most of the stuff I liked kept getting canned, and why am I paying for 12 ESPNs when I don't even watch one of them? Plus, it cut my cable bill in half, and the streaming costs were far lower.
The irony is that HBO and Disney, which have the strongest catalogs, are so busy shooting themselves in the foot that they might help the Peacocks and Paramount+ survive longer than they logically should. (Hulu is likely to be part of Disney+ by the end of 2024, so it'll both survive and die, complicating things.)I think the property owners are taking big risks thinking they own enough content to go it their own way.
I'm not surprised that's one of the biggest cost-sources. I no longer remember all the specifics, but there was ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Goal Line... When I saw Dodgeball, I missed that "ESPN8, el Ocho" was a joke -- it seemed perfectly plausible that there was such a channel that I just missed paging through what seemed like an endless sea of sports channels.Apparently the biggest costs in most cable bills are ESPN and Fox News, both of which have must-carry clauses in their contracts with cable providers.
I'm not surprised that's one of the biggest cost-sources. I no longer remember all the specifics, but there was ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Goal Line...
When I saw Dodgeball, I missed that "ESPN8, el Ocho" was a joke -- it seemed perfectly plausible that there was such a channel that I just missed paging through what seemed like an endless sea of sports channels.
I was floored when Cornhole tourneys were on ESPN...I'm not surprised that's one of the biggest cost-sources. I no longer remember all the specifics, but there was ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPNU, ESPN Deportes, ESPN Goal Line... When I saw Dodgeball, I missed that "ESPN8, el Ocho" was a joke -- it seemed perfectly plausible that there was such a channel that I just missed paging through what seemed like an endless sea of sports channels.
I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS PAYING FOR THIS CRAP! FOR YEARS!!!I was floored when Cornhole tourneys were on ESPN...
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I get what you are saying, but I also really like the fact that other things can get their shining moments instead of the big 4.I CAN'T BELIEVE I WAS PAYING FOR THIS CRAP! FOR YEARS!!!
No disrespect meant to those who are ardent cornhole fanatics, but you can see how me, someone completely without a sportsball fandom, would object to being required to pay for all the sportsball.
I'm still floored that "cornhole" somehow got popular over the sound of all the snickering.I was floored when Cornhole tourneys were on ESPN...![]()
Meanwhile, I, a sci-fi fan, received exactly one sci-fi channel, and it was barely that...I get what you are saying, but I also really like the fact that other things can get their shining moments instead of the big 4.
I'm still floored that "cornhole" somehow got popular over the sound of all the snickering.