The reason I cut cable, and I think for a lot of people, wasn’t the ads, but rather the relentless price increases combined with the decreased content. Spectrum, for instance, had two rate increases in the last year when alll they were basically showing were reruns.
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
Yep, most of these media companies love the price hike. If they're adding something, that's one thing, but when it's just a forced hike for no reason, that's something else.
@JohnnyReno71
2 ай бұрын
You know for years I was afraid of canceling cable. Since I did it 6 months ago, I don’t miss it. I have an indoor antenna and Tablo, and a few streaming services ( used discounts for them) and saved lots. Thanks guys!!
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
Awesome, we love to hear stories like yours. 🙂
@marilynbender4763
2 ай бұрын
Exactly what I have done. The ads were my deciding factor. There are a fee channels that are reasonably priced that don't carry chanels. Cord cutting is becoming quite popular!
@superharry484
26 күн бұрын
@@FrugalRules I rid myself of Comcast in 2003 & went to Dish, & as time went on, the cable stations got worse & worse. Then, in 2016, Dish, which had significantly gone up in price, tried to squeeze another $20 per month from us. That was the last straw. I called them & said they were to get out of my home, that I was going back to an antenna, something I did not have since 1987. I did it, & never looked back. I don't want streaming or anything else I have to pay for.
@shackdaddy7106
2 ай бұрын
One thing that is keeping cable TV alive our apartment houses and assisted living facilities. Quite often when you move into an apartment now they included your rent cable TV and you have to accept it. Also, the same with the assisted-living.
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
Excellent point. It'll be interesting to see when, or even if, that'll start to decline.
@joseirizarry
2 ай бұрын
Ad's will now Kill streaming.
@robinklein2733
2 ай бұрын
That may explain all the pharmaceutical ads on the TV channels. Many of these drugs are for older people.
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
Yep, those are our least favorite ones typically. They're always so long!
@bradc6199
2 ай бұрын
That's also why news programs won't cover the problems with the jab.
@quantanglement
2 ай бұрын
@@FrugalRules And a lpt of them are not well at all.
@marilynbender4763
2 ай бұрын
And at the same time it's hard for us seniors to find programs aimed at us.
@thehowman8567
2 ай бұрын
as someone who grew up with Cable though i do not have it anymore i miss the Simplicty of Cable tv with one Remote for each box it came with but times change i dont like alot of these streaming tv services like Drec tv Stream or youtube tv but it is what it is Cable is just to expensive i miss the Good Ole days and even Live tv isnt that good anymore unless you like Sports like for me i love Sports and Pro Wrestling anything else i can watch with a Streaming Service Like Max Peacock etc in the 1990s it was easy to find what you want with Cable tv Cable was suppose to be add Free when it first started back in the late 19170s But wow how things have changed i hope that one day we can have a way to just watch what people want weather its sports or news or just a Show i know there lots of options but there neeeds to be a way to draw the line Somewhere and just make it simple for everyone to find what they wanna watch
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
You're not wrong on the simplicity aspect, although it did/does come with a price tag. We'd love to see something like that, but don't believe the big media companies will allow for that.
@gablit-gt8kk
Ай бұрын
If we have streaming why do still need cable if there's always gonna be hiatus for shows!?
@bikeny
2 ай бұрын
The last time I checked, ad time during a regular old-fashioned tv show broadcast during prime time was 20 minutes for the hour-long and 10 for the typical half-hour show. That's double the time that was in effect prior to 1978 when the ad-time was regulated. I do wonder if we'll ever have another WHO SHOT JR? cliffhanger. One thing does concern me about the Amazon Prime ad-block time (and for those who watch the ad version of netflix) is if they are going to do what the broadcasters did and that was think "oh, it's only another 15 seconds, what is it going to hurt?" That's how we got to the 10 and 20 minutes of ads. I have not yet watched any amazon prime stuff so I don't know how good or bad the ad-time is, but I will be soon. I am also wondering if amazon is showing their logo during content if you are on the ad version of prime. I will not watch any channel that puts their logo on the screen while I am watching something. (Yes, I excuse youtube since I am not paying anything for it; but there are some channels that I don't subscribe to due to their creating their own huge logo as well).
@FrugalRules
2 ай бұрын
Yea, that's a valid concern re: adding time in small increments. We've not watched a ton of stuff on Prime, outside of testing for another video, so not sure if they put their logo on during content.
@gablit-gt8kk
Ай бұрын
Technology won't get better in a way that will make us feel happy
@ricpasley3110
2 ай бұрын
Question for you guys if all of wwe programming goes on Netflix how many people are going to drop peacock because they only got it for watching wwe and will wwe fans be enough to help Netflix momma myself love yalls vids
@Gmen2487
Ай бұрын
The drop wont be much because peacock is adding the nba and only Monday night Raw is going to Netflix. In 2026, Smackdown and nxt are moving to Netflix, as well as the library content.
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