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ESPN pay cuts?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Azrael, Apr 13, 2020.

  1. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    I recently found the network as a channel on the Samsung app on its smart TVs. I think it was next to a channel showing videos of puppies eating their own crap.
     
  2. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    When does the Scott Van Pelt vanity project end?
     
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  3. Readallover

    Readallover Active Member

  4. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    They will have to pry my cable subscription out of my cold, dead hands. Streaming UX really needs to improve before I'm on board. Right now the way it's set up, it's as if I'd have to dial 20 numbers to connect with a cellphone, then wait for a minute lag while the call loaded up.
     
  5. Readallover

    Readallover Active Member

    FiOS is so scared of losing more customers that my rate has stayed flat for the past 4 years. I'm a customer until it folds.
     
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Comcast DGAF anymore. I've tried to renegotiate with them and they won't budge.
     
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  7. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    I pay less for my car than my wife pays for cable.
     
  8. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    I doubt if you will have a choice to abandon your cable company. I think that your cable company is going the way of Blockbuster. When homes started to get internet service the fiber optic lines did not have enough capacity to carry video. If you wanted to rent a movie off to Blockbuster you had to go. When the fiber optic technology improved enough to carry video Blockbuster disappeared. The fiber optic lines that internet providers now use have enough capacity to handle all the cable channels. It is cheaper to push the channels out through one network along with internet and telephone service rather than maintaining separate lines. I think the cable providers are going to got the way of Blockbuster.
     
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  9. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Same here, by about $20.
     
  10. PaperClip529

    PaperClip529 Well-Known Member

    When I finally cut cable two years ago, the last-second deal they offered me to stay included an added phone line I didn't need and a price that was higher than what I said I didn't want to pay.
     
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  11. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    And my car has massaging seats and can park itself*

    * - I will never use this feature but will happily tell people about it
     
  12. BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo

    BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo Well-Known Member

    I'm sure I've stated here that I'm the only person in the family watching cable (my daughter upon walking into the room and seeing me watching Big Bang Theory reruns on TBS: "Put on Big Bang streaming." Kids. :D) and that my wife asks multiple times a year if we can get rid of it. But right now, having cable is actually SAVING us money. MSG and YES have made their apps $30 and $25 a month, respectively. Fuck all the way off there. And as you've noted, it's impossible to bounce back and forth on streaming. Give me the option of flipping somewhere else during a commercial break or halftime.
     
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