We’ve stripped our cable subscription down to the bare minimum. When and if the CFL goes online, it’s gone.
34 Replies to “Not Watching For The Asteroid”
There is still cable? I haven’t had that for more than 5 years now. The only entertainment I pay for is Netflix.
Until the CBC is gone, I won’t pay for cable, satellite, nothing. Until there is someone who is going to get rid of public sector unions, I won’t vote or donate. When the last socialist is gone, I will help push people out of snowbanks again.
I thought cable was only for kids cartoons, but then my kid told me that there are better cartoons on Netflix. So we’re cable-free.
CFL online? Why shrink their audience even more?
BTW, no issues with cord cutting cable, it’s about time CNN, LSDNBC, etc take their lumps. Unfortunately, the Corpse and LCTV get automatic carriage fees, despite their terribly biased and political product
The worst is ”Naked and Afraid” on Discovery. What do you prove by walking through the wilderness with thorns in your feet and having your privates blurred out??
A close second are the bozos who live in Alaska and try and make us believe that they are living off the land. We all live off the land!!
All in the Family and Three’s Company on Deja View most likely have higher ratings than most of the new shows they’re making.
The bastards even took ”Thomas the Tank Engine” off the kid’s channel. Cruel!!
We cut the cord about 2 years ago.
I don’t watch much CFL but I do watch the NFL online through europe they stream all sports including the CFL.
MyP2P.eu
I stopped watching channels such as Bravo when much of their content were re-runs from the commercial networks. I didn’t watch those shows on those channels, so why should I watch them on cable?
The only ones I watch now with any regularity are Turner Classic Movies, Encore Avenue, and AMC. The rest I could easily do without.
Another problem: TV networks and advertisers still haven’t agreed on a way to measure audiences on other platforms besides TV, like tablets and phones.
What the actual f*ck?
Streaming video provides perfect viewer demographic information.
I got Netflix MLB NFL and NHL packages. Haven’t had cable in years. Get all my news from SDA.
At one time PBS was about the only channel I would watch, back when it assumed that its audience was intelligent and its content was balanced.
The decline began about 15 years ago when shows such as Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser were being dumbed down. Rukeyser criticized that on air during one of his shows, though using his usual wit and brilliance. He was fired soon after that, so he started again on CNBC. That show went off the air after about 2 years when he became ill.
As for WSW, the show was dull and lifeless at best and PBS pulled the plug on it.
The networks have only themselves to blame for what’s happened.
We got rid of TV in April 2000. No shit.
Watched the Twin Towers come down in real time on the internet over a year later. Never looked back.
Don’t watch TV people. It will turn your brains to cheese.
Sports? Bread and Circuses. Want to know why so many fathers are political ignoramuses or spend so little time with their families?
SPORTS! yeah, those dumbasses know the names of their favorite coaches or quarterbacks or hockey centers but when it comes to knowing the name of their Alderman or MLA or MP well they haven’t got a ghost of a clue and they’d be FECKED to know what the issues are that really impact their lives or their future or their children’s future.
MISDIRECTION. It’s all about misdirection. They pull a rabbit out of a hat and stick your whole life in their back pocket and you get to pay for it.
That’s why Switzerland charges 400/home and per office/year for the ability to have cable. Coming next year. This way you never have to bother IF people buy it or not.
Also: you can not get a phone line or internet without also buying cable…. it’s obvious how they count or else they could charge actual users. But that would probably very few by now.
you can not get a phone line or internet without also buying cable
Yes, you can.
15 years cable free. I’ve saved thousands.
If my wife ever runs away with the milkman – and there is no milkman – I will unbolt those metal disks, those thrall-rings, from my roof and put them along the road for the scrap-metal collectors.
Been on satellite for 5 years now, The provider said I could have up to 5 receivers so I later purchased from another business 5 dishes and spread them out among family members at their houses and we all share the bill, $25 each. Now if I can convince my neighbors to share one internet connection via a signal booster I’ll have her beat. You do what you have to do at times.
“…Unfortunately, the Corpse and LCTV get automatic carriage fees, despite their terribly biased and political product.”
No, because of their terribly biased and political product.
Haven’t had cable for five years now. Netflix only at first, and now Amazon Prime. I’ve never watched sports so it’s no loss. I can’t recall the ‘news’ on television having had actual news content for at least the last ten years, so, no loss there, either.
“I don’t watch any of that crap on TV” is ‘virtue signaling’ no different than what lefty SJWs have been inflicting on the rest of us for decades. If you’re spending hours in front non-work screens each day then you’re exactly like every other slug watching TV whether it’s via cable, satellite, antenna, cell phone app or in a sports bar. Get over yourselves …we’re ALL vegging out in front of screens far too many hours every week. If ‘cable cutting’ makes you think you’re not then you’re pathetic. Want to REALLY save a pile of money and improve your feeble minds while you’re at it? …get your @$$ into a library and start borrowing AND READING ‘the great books’ FOR FREE! …you’re welcome.
I don’t like the sounds of this. Perhaps I should sell my BCE shares.
I cut my satellite subscription in half last month. I used to have 200 channels with nothing worth watching. Now I have only 100 channels with nothing worth watching.
Wow. So you’re one of those that likes to tell others how to live they’re lives.
You must not have children.
I don’t have cable. Haven’t seen a CFL game on TV in 10 years. I do watch a couple NFL games every week. The CFL has personally told me they don’t want me as a fan so I complied. The fools are wondering why their support is dwindling. It’s called greed.
Pulled the plug at Chez Phantom eight or nine years ago. Never listen the the radio, never watch broadcast anything.
Got kids? Buy a DVD player and let them binge-watch videos you can buy five-for-a-dollar at garage sales.
You and your kids will know more and be smarter for having missed all the TV. Because with a DVD player, YOU pick what you watch. With TV, somebody else picks, and that guy is not your friend.
“how to live they’re lives” ??????
You must not have any education.
“They’re”?????? How about “Their”, buddy? Do you think that might make more sense? I would guess that the toughest four years of your life was grade 2.
“I would guess that the toughest four years of your life was grade 2.”
Ya it was. Very trying. Then comes auto correct that someone with my limited ability didn’t catch. I know I’m the only one that happens to. I feel like such a failure. Thanks for pointing that out.
Had nothing but over-the-air for years. Not missing a bloody thing.
So, you’re subsidizing the CBC and MSM so you can watch a bunch of apes chase a piece of pigskin.
Sounds legit.
“”how to live they’re lives” ??????…”
Try Sanka.
+1
Cut our cable TV cord in 2009 when we moved from house to condo.
We still have digital phone and internet.
For the 2010 Winter Olympics, built this: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-fractal-antenna-for-HDTV-DTV-plus-/
We are in line-of-sight of Mount Seymour, so can get about 6 hi-def channels.
But we never watched any of them after the WO.
–Bad News
Try learning.
Don’t be to hard on YeahWell – it’s the thing now … be illiterate, ignorant, and opinionated. After all, his mom told him he was smart and precious … it’s all the matters.
“it’s all the matters” = it’s all that matters
Stopped using Dish Network years ago. Flew to Alaska for Northern Lights and watched Dish Network again. Remembered why we abandoned it. A few programs in between commercials most of them repeating same ad endlessly, often for Dish Network. Are they thinking their customers need another subscription? Glad we stopped wasting our money.
There is still cable? I haven’t had that for more than 5 years now. The only entertainment I pay for is Netflix.
Until the CBC is gone, I won’t pay for cable, satellite, nothing. Until there is someone who is going to get rid of public sector unions, I won’t vote or donate. When the last socialist is gone, I will help push people out of snowbanks again.
I thought cable was only for kids cartoons, but then my kid told me that there are better cartoons on Netflix. So we’re cable-free.
CFL online? Why shrink their audience even more?
BTW, no issues with cord cutting cable, it’s about time CNN, LSDNBC, etc take their lumps. Unfortunately, the Corpse and LCTV get automatic carriage fees, despite their terribly biased and political product
The worst is ”Naked and Afraid” on Discovery. What do you prove by walking through the wilderness with thorns in your feet and having your privates blurred out??
A close second are the bozos who live in Alaska and try and make us believe that they are living off the land. We all live off the land!!
All in the Family and Three’s Company on Deja View most likely have higher ratings than most of the new shows they’re making.
The bastards even took ”Thomas the Tank Engine” off the kid’s channel. Cruel!!
We cut the cord about 2 years ago.
I don’t watch much CFL but I do watch the NFL online through europe they stream all sports including the CFL.
MyP2P.eu
I stopped watching channels such as Bravo when much of their content were re-runs from the commercial networks. I didn’t watch those shows on those channels, so why should I watch them on cable?
The only ones I watch now with any regularity are Turner Classic Movies, Encore Avenue, and AMC. The rest I could easily do without.
Another problem: TV networks and advertisers still haven’t agreed on a way to measure audiences on other platforms besides TV, like tablets and phones.
What the actual f*ck?
Streaming video provides perfect viewer demographic information.
I got Netflix MLB NFL and NHL packages. Haven’t had cable in years. Get all my news from SDA.
At one time PBS was about the only channel I would watch, back when it assumed that its audience was intelligent and its content was balanced.
The decline began about 15 years ago when shows such as Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser were being dumbed down. Rukeyser criticized that on air during one of his shows, though using his usual wit and brilliance. He was fired soon after that, so he started again on CNBC. That show went off the air after about 2 years when he became ill.
As for WSW, the show was dull and lifeless at best and PBS pulled the plug on it.
The networks have only themselves to blame for what’s happened.
We got rid of TV in April 2000. No shit.
Watched the Twin Towers come down in real time on the internet over a year later. Never looked back.
Don’t watch TV people. It will turn your brains to cheese.
Sports? Bread and Circuses. Want to know why so many fathers are political ignoramuses or spend so little time with their families?
SPORTS! yeah, those dumbasses know the names of their favorite coaches or quarterbacks or hockey centers but when it comes to knowing the name of their Alderman or MLA or MP well they haven’t got a ghost of a clue and they’d be FECKED to know what the issues are that really impact their lives or their future or their children’s future.
MISDIRECTION. It’s all about misdirection. They pull a rabbit out of a hat and stick your whole life in their back pocket and you get to pay for it.
That’s why Switzerland charges 400/home and per office/year for the ability to have cable. Coming next year. This way you never have to bother IF people buy it or not.
Also: you can not get a phone line or internet without also buying cable…. it’s obvious how they count or else they could charge actual users. But that would probably very few by now.
you can not get a phone line or internet without also buying cable
Yes, you can.
15 years cable free. I’ve saved thousands.
If my wife ever runs away with the milkman – and there is no milkman – I will unbolt those metal disks, those thrall-rings, from my roof and put them along the road for the scrap-metal collectors.
Been on satellite for 5 years now, The provider said I could have up to 5 receivers so I later purchased from another business 5 dishes and spread them out among family members at their houses and we all share the bill, $25 each. Now if I can convince my neighbors to share one internet connection via a signal booster I’ll have her beat. You do what you have to do at times.
“…Unfortunately, the Corpse and LCTV get automatic carriage fees, despite their terribly biased and political product.”
No, because of their terribly biased and political product.
Haven’t had cable for five years now. Netflix only at first, and now Amazon Prime. I’ve never watched sports so it’s no loss. I can’t recall the ‘news’ on television having had actual news content for at least the last ten years, so, no loss there, either.
“I don’t watch any of that crap on TV” is ‘virtue signaling’ no different than what lefty SJWs have been inflicting on the rest of us for decades. If you’re spending hours in front non-work screens each day then you’re exactly like every other slug watching TV whether it’s via cable, satellite, antenna, cell phone app or in a sports bar. Get over yourselves …we’re ALL vegging out in front of screens far too many hours every week. If ‘cable cutting’ makes you think you’re not then you’re pathetic. Want to REALLY save a pile of money and improve your feeble minds while you’re at it? …get your @$$ into a library and start borrowing AND READING ‘the great books’ FOR FREE! …you’re welcome.
I don’t like the sounds of this. Perhaps I should sell my BCE shares.
I cut my satellite subscription in half last month. I used to have 200 channels with nothing worth watching. Now I have only 100 channels with nothing worth watching.
Wow. So you’re one of those that likes to tell others how to live they’re lives.
You must not have children.
I don’t have cable. Haven’t seen a CFL game on TV in 10 years. I do watch a couple NFL games every week. The CFL has personally told me they don’t want me as a fan so I complied. The fools are wondering why their support is dwindling. It’s called greed.
Pulled the plug at Chez Phantom eight or nine years ago. Never listen the the radio, never watch broadcast anything.
Got kids? Buy a DVD player and let them binge-watch videos you can buy five-for-a-dollar at garage sales.
You and your kids will know more and be smarter for having missed all the TV. Because with a DVD player, YOU pick what you watch. With TV, somebody else picks, and that guy is not your friend.
“how to live they’re lives” ??????
You must not have any education.
“They’re”?????? How about “Their”, buddy? Do you think that might make more sense? I would guess that the toughest four years of your life was grade 2.
“I would guess that the toughest four years of your life was grade 2.”
Ya it was. Very trying. Then comes auto correct that someone with my limited ability didn’t catch. I know I’m the only one that happens to. I feel like such a failure. Thanks for pointing that out.
Had nothing but over-the-air for years. Not missing a bloody thing.
So, you’re subsidizing the CBC and MSM so you can watch a bunch of apes chase a piece of pigskin.
Sounds legit.
“”how to live they’re lives” ??????…”
Try Sanka.
+1
Cut our cable TV cord in 2009 when we moved from house to condo.
We still have digital phone and internet.
For the 2010 Winter Olympics, built this:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-fractal-antenna-for-HDTV-DTV-plus-/
We are in line-of-sight of Mount Seymour, so can get about 6 hi-def channels.
But we never watched any of them after the WO.
–Bad News
Try learning.
Don’t be to hard on YeahWell – it’s the thing now … be illiterate, ignorant, and opinionated. After all, his mom told him he was smart and precious … it’s all the matters.
“it’s all the matters” = it’s all that matters
Stopped using Dish Network years ago. Flew to Alaska for Northern Lights and watched Dish Network again. Remembered why we abandoned it. A few programs in between commercials most of them repeating same ad endlessly, often for Dish Network. Are they thinking their customers need another subscription? Glad we stopped wasting our money.