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YouTube TV goes up in price yet drops sports channels
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:17 pm
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:17 pm
Had that price hike two months ago for channels no one wants but today dropped regional fox sports channels 
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Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:26 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I came to this board, because I just turned on YTTV and had a message that regional fox sports channels are gone. I'm going to check out hulu live now.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:38 pm to StraightCashHomey21
It's going to get worse as more people cut the cord. Networks and cable companies will try to make up for the smaller audiences by raising prices, which of course will cause cord cutting to accelerate...
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:41 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Hey maybe this means they’ll drop their price.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:45 pm to StraightCashHomey21
No one wanted Comedy Central, paramount, nfl network?
Posted on 10/1/20 at 6:58 pm to Chimlim
We'll be back at cable prices before long with added internet data caps.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 7:02 pm to DukeSilver
No one wanted mtv and the other bullshite that came along with it
This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 7:03 pm
Posted on 10/1/20 at 7:08 pm to StraightCashHomey21
There’s other choices. No matter what channeled YouTube is missing or how much it is, you have to have it” on here just like a pixel, gogole Fi, etc I don’t get it.
Posted on 10/1/20 at 8:38 pm to StraightCashHomey21
Yeah, they were really dumb for that last price hike. I just put mine on pause yesterday. I was happy about being able to watch Yellowstone, but don't really care about anything else that came with the viacom deal
This post was edited on 10/1/20 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 10/1/20 at 9:13 pm to StraightCashHomey21
these streaming services are dumb to get their prices up near cable.
may as well just get the basic cable package
may as well just get the basic cable package
Posted on 10/1/20 at 10:28 pm to HailToTheChiz
quote:I think it's inevitable that Hulu won't also raise their price in the next 6 months. And then it will be about the cost of cable and defeat the purpose of cord cutting.
these streaming services are dumb to get their prices up near cable.
may as well just get the basic cable package
Posted on 10/2/20 at 12:43 am to HailToTheChiz
quote:They're not dumb, they just have to make a profit. The content and channel owners have everyone by the balls with all the channel bundling and bidding wars.
these streaming services are dumb to get their prices up near cable.
I called this a few years back when there were fewer players in streaming (Sling was the biggest name at the time, before YTTV, Hulu live, Vue, etc got big). It's kind of a perverse market where more competition creates higher prices. If there is just one streaming provider, then they will get 100% of streaming customers and the content/channel owners just have to get whatever price they can get. The provider either pays or they don't. Then the more streaming services there are, that's just more players to bid the prices up. The content/channel owners have all the leverage, and every time a contract runs out for a provider they have to pay whatever the new going rate is or they don't get the channels. And if they don't get the channels people want, they die.
And in the meantime there's always consolidation happening among content/channel owners, so the bundles just get bigger and more expensive.
So the price hikes were inevitable during this "phase 1" of cord-cutting, where the TV services were decoupled from the delivery medium. And that's good and necessary, but hopefully phase 2 will begin soon, and the demands to bust the bundles get louder and we get true a la carte TV soon. Consumers won't really benefit until that happens. Channels and content need to live and die on their own merit and quality instead of piggybacking in a bundle with a bunch of other crap.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 10:29 am to StraightCashHomey21
Muh cord cutting
Posted on 10/2/20 at 11:01 am to HailToTheChiz
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may as well just get the basic cable package
I went back to Comcast. Much cheaper and better quality.
I get 1 gig internet plus over 200 channels (all of the channels on yttv) for $105 month.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 11:16 am to frankthetank
quote:That's a good deal given the current streaming options, but personally I will never go back to cable just on principle. I will never forgive decades of swindles. I'll do without before I give another dime to cox, at&t, etc.
I went back to Comcast. Much cheaper and better quality.
I get 1 gig internet plus over 200 channels (all of the channels on yttv) for $105 month.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 12:37 pm to frankthetank
Is there a 2 year contract and the price increases after year 1?
Posted on 10/2/20 at 12:54 pm to HailToTheChiz
The dumb part is adding all the extra channels. People are dropping cable because they have 150 channels they don't watch. If a streaming service would come out with a smaller package of 30 or so channels, and keep it at that, they could keep their prices down even if its the 30 most popular channels.
Posted on 10/2/20 at 2:59 pm to StraightCashHomey21
I don’t care for fox regional channels... I did want paramount for Yellowstone, nick and nick jr for kids
Posted on 10/2/20 at 3:25 pm to Korkstand
Yep. I don't know anything about how much the streaming service providers are paying, but I know that every time my employer has to renegotiate contracts with viacom on the other large entities, they raise a pricing on their content 50 to 75% at a minimum every. Single. Time. And my employer is powerless to stop it
Unfortunately, there's really not an a la carte option. The large channel providers bundle channels together and Force TV providers to get channels they don't really want in order to get channels they do really want.
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dumb part is adding all the extra channels. People are dropping cable because they have 150 channels they don't watch. If a streaming service would come out with a smaller package of 30 or so channels, and keep it at that, they could keep their prices down even if its the 30 most popular channels.
Unfortunately, there's really not an a la carte option. The large channel providers bundle channels together and Force TV providers to get channels they don't really want in order to get channels they do really want.
This post was edited on 10/2/20 at 3:28 pm
Posted on 10/2/20 at 4:18 pm to Brosef Stalin
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The dumb part is adding all the extra channels.
I think it's just a volume business where the only way to handle the costs is to keep growing the subscriber base which these companies believe means adding more channels to broaden the appeal. FuboTV started out as a $30 a month sports only streamer, now it's a $65 a month normal streamer, they don't even have the $30 sports only option anymore.
This post was edited on 10/2/20 at 4:18 pm
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