I am as tired as anyone on all the tv bullshit. Satelitte, streaming, blah, blah, blah bs.

Now on Direct no Espn so no college football on that station.

I am not all that hot on the orange cable bs either. But looks like if we want internet and a LL phone it is necessary according to our provider.

So we will be getting that pulled to the house at some point.

Maybe we'll do something different, but I blame this on disney not direct.

Yep, typical negotiations, big football college weekend and ESPN/Disney is holding out for more money.

Thinking about dumping Direct anyway, this could be the reason, besides it's gotten stupid expensive.

Lucky my parents have Spectrum, so I just downloaded the ESPN app and use dad's account to log in for the game tonight.

Yeah pissed me off big time. My problem with Direct TV is the expense and the fact that they changed the ENTIRE setup. I do not want all the extra bs. The picture is now minimized and channels are all different. I tried for hours to fix. Any special way to contact Direct TV? I am tired of talking to overseas operators.

Just spitballin' here, but maybe it's fans that care too much?

College football is big busness. I can go watch ALL the games at my local casinos for free. It is just not convenient.

Ship, Disney owns the SEC network too.

We have already been without our local FOX channel for 2 years.

Pretty typical, especially for Disney. They are always outages with sat and cable providers when they argue over price for X or Y channel(s). Disney, has slowly bought up so much shit, including ESPN. And ESPN has bought up the rights for broadcasting so many sports including football. There are some very attractive female tennis players these days so I enjoyed the Tennis Channel app for years. They’d cover the grand slams until the quarters then ESPN or the big 4 OTA stations had it from there. Then ESPN bought up all the tennis and you got fucked unless you had ESPN. ESPN and Disney are doing monopoly shit and someone needs to sue their asses as it’s un American. I spoke to a guy in that business one time and he said ESPN alone is $20+ a month for anyone that has it. It’s always rolled into a package with a bunch of bs you’ll never watch so subscribers don’t catch on.

I quit Dish several years ago and I loathe the streaming. I have 7 live Movie channels now (no commercials) via 2 apps. When I had Sat, I had 40 channels or more, 24/7. Dish just kept raising the basic package required to have their service and I was done. They used to discount it for me and I’d get all the movie channels and keep it to $70-90 a month. I’d have to call every few months to put X or Y movie station back on the promotional deal but it worked for years. Then all of a sudden the bill went over $100 and that was it. I tried calling and working with them but they would no longer deal at all. If they ever offer a la carte I’ll be back. I want to be able to pick and choose exactly what I want, not have their bullshit shoved down my throat. I detested having to pay them $29.99 a month for basic programming that I never watched so when they raised it to $50 it was pound sand time. I’ll pay the blood money again, perhaps, once I move rural and don’t have a mortgage any longer.

The orange coax is solid. The Coax providers (MSO’s) are offering symmetrical gigabit bandwidth now in select markets and it’s going to open up to everyone in their foot print eventually. Good thing to have.

YouTube TV never seems to have these issues and I’m happy with it. Was watching the Phillies game on Saturday on ESPN and saw lots of very pissed off people on Reddit talking about how they were blacked out with DTV.

DirecTV is offering a $20 credit to all subscribers for the loss of the Disney/ESPN channels.

To claim it go here: Link

It will take you to a page, you select Satellite or Internet customer, then login to you account FROM that link and it will pop up where you can accept the $20 credit.

Link didn't work for some reason, called and 5 min later a $20 credit for next month. Thanks!

Glad that worked, here's the 411 from the page, mine worked, but I can't see it again since I have the credit already.

How to redeem a credit:

1. Go to . TVPromise.com

2. Select your TV service from the drop-down menu and enter your Zip Code.

3. Select the Search button to check for service disruption in your area and see if you're eligible for a one-time credit offer.
Note: If there is no service disruption in your area, you will not qualify for a credit.

4. If you qualify for a bill credit, go to the Explore bill credits section of the TV Promise page and select the appropriate button to initiate a credit.

You might consider AppleTV. ESPN+ for $11/mo and cancel/restart any time. They carry every game as far as I know. I've been using it for the past several years to watch Big Sky games and then just cancel it at the end of the season. Works great.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
You might consider AppleTV. ESPN+ for $11/mo and cancel/restart any time. They carry every game as far as I know. I've been using it for the past several years to watch Big Sky games and then just cancel it at the end of the season. Works great.

You can't watch broadcast games on ESPN+ without a subscription to a provider and ESPN. It's shady like a Magnolia tree. I'm a Troy fan and most of their games are on ESPN+, so I've had to subscribe to both YoutubeTV with ESPN and ESPN+ for years now.

I cut direct TV a decade ago because they screwed my on a discount I was supposed to get as a new subscriber. I haven't missed it and I've just lived with the 50+ channels I receive with my roof antenna. Im not a big sports fan so pro or college sports don't mean much to me. With that said none of these satellite or cable providers share my conservative values instead they oppose my conservative values so I see no need to give them my money.

The fu--ing commercials on antenna tv are beyond pale though. seems like they go on for 10 minutes about every 10 mins.

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
The fu--ing commercials on antenna tv are beyond pale though. seems like they go on for 10 minutes about every 10 mins.

Sounds like Newsmax. I love their content, but it's split evenly with the number and length of commercials...the same ones...over and over...and over....

Slight drift here We have Crusin the Coast every year. One year we got Cat 2 storm. Was not much but rednecks did not know about it and the phone said it was open. Drove from North Mississipi and had to swim thourgh twenty feet of water to get in. The casino host felt bad and gave them free room for the night. Made the local news. Should have watched the news. The national networks missed out on a top national story. Between them they have about three teeth.