What’s the best cheap streaming service

There are few ad-supported services that are free, like Pluto TV.

Peacock’s (NBC’s streaming service) lowest tier is a free, ad-based tier. But you get shows like House, Columbo, and Rockford Files, it’s a helluva deal.

Edit: If you want live TV like cable news, you’ll always be paying a premium for that. Since I stopped watching cable news altogether (I think 2014 was the year), except on election nights, my enjoyment of life and my TV bill has been much better.

(I mooch off of friends for live sports.)

Prime has the most content

Hoopla is free

Paramount+ for instance has every soccer match pretty much all over the world if you are into that. That’s great for 5 bucks

AMC + is only $6.99.

Has a lot of great TV shows, documentaries, and hundreds of really good movies. Plus they add new content often and get all the IMC stuff like Portlandia, Documentary Now, and Sundance shows and movies.

Is att streaming a good choice....I have had cox for years but there service is horrible...especially if you have too have one of their contract techs come out....

Highly recommend Pluto TV

Tubi is free.

I am actually going through a few internet providers and there are deals where they will cut 10 bucks off your YTTV service.

I also have AT&T cell service. I get HBO max for free for signing up with them.

I would log in to your internet service site and check out if there are deals you can take advantage of

I’m actually going to start opening the mail from them. I switched to Xfinity from Frontier and I get double the download speed (100) for half the price. It’s promotional for a year or two. I just check their sit and that same package is 84 dollars. I pay 40 bucks now.

I’m sure some really cheap internet services are out there.

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I’m trying to pin down one for sports

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What tigerfan84 said is what you are looking for.

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Discovery+ and Disney bundle that includes ESPN+ and Hulu would cost you less than $20 per month.

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Expect to pay a premium for any service that includes ESPN. Disney will pull ESPN from other streaming services as their current contracts run out, like they did with YouTube/Google. They got them to pay more. I'm assuming the increase will be passed on to the YouTube TV subscribers.

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All Disney-owned content, including ABC and ESPN, went dark on YouTube TV late Friday after a breakdown in distribution negotiations between Disney and Google. On Sunday, YouTube TV said it was flipping the lights back on.

The financial dispute between the media giants over carriage fees led to the first major blackout for Google-owned YouTube TV, which has more than 3 million subscribers and is one of the nation’s largest Internet pay-TV services. Disney and Google, whose parent company is Alphabet, had been unable to reach a new deal by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Friday.

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Content affected by the lapse included ABC-owned TV stations, ESPN networks and Disney channels. Freeform, the FX networks and National Geographic channels also had been removed. The next day, they announced a deal, with Disney Media saying it was “pleased” to have kept the disruption short. “We appreciate Google’s collaboration to reach fair terms that are consistent with the market,” Disney said in a statement.

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Washington Post