NFL Broadcast Rant/TV In General

[quikdraw67]

There are 2 NFL games on Christmas Day. One are the Steelers, a team I've followed since I was a kid.

I'm not getting into the politics of the NFL, or whether or not they should be playing on Christmas.

What's got me pissed is that the games are only on Netflix. The exception is that they are broadcast over the air in the team's cities (Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Baltimore, and Houston) per NFL requirements. I don't have Netflix, so no game for me.

Now, this is certainly not the end of the world. But I am also looking at my DirecTV biil, that is $154. Basically 5 bucks a day for mostly garbage.

Once upon a time all the NFL games were free on broadcast TV. Then Thursday Night Football came along, which required cable. Now it requires Amazon Prime. Then Monday Night Football changed to ESPN, which requires cable (this seems to have changed, as ABC and ESPN carry the games simultaneously).

I guess the point I'm getting at is I'm done. DirecTV is a ripoff, for the little we watch it. And I refuse to pay for a streaming service.

I get over 20 channels using a digital "rabbit ears" antenna. That would cover local news and weather, as well as a lot of sports. Plus old reruns and movies that I prefer anyway.

I remember when our cable bill was $29.95 when we got married, and I thought that was a lot then.

Rant over.

 

[Abbynormal]

The NFL secretly wants all of their games to be on pay TV so they can control the viewership and the $$$$'s coming in from every fan.

 

[GnarlsR2]

That's a good rant!

The level of Bravo Sierra that's on TV makes me need a high dose of psychotropic drugs!

Dish bill is $156 and we watch about 6 channels.

Having to figure out where a football game is that I want to watch is like a 15-minute pop quiz to let me know I have Mild Cognitive Impairment.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I pays my money and I sees stuff I want to watch.

I win every time.

 

[CH4]

I paid $30 for a power antenna on eBay. Get about 50 channels, which include the 3 networks, movie, history and other cool channels. Free

 

[Roofuss]

I guess the point I'm getting at is I'm done. DirecTV is a ripoff, for the little we watch it. And I refuse to pay for a streaming service.



Rant over.[/QUOTE]

Amen, brother, just another money making scam for the networks, and the NFL ! We have Dish, but its the same story.

 

[Yendor357]

Amazon Fire TV. Google it. Get it. $31 per month once you’re set up. You get Everything. EVERYTHING.

 

[AugieTN]

Sooner or later the NFL will realize they are losing fans. It will take them time to realize it's what they did.

Remember when they added a comedian to Monday Night Football to increase viewership? That was so stupid.

 

[Rustyt1953]

NFL viewership has surged to a 9 year high averaging over 18.6 million viewers per game.

It's not going anywhere.

 

[targetchief]

We dropped satellite at the end of March. I don't miss it but my wife does so we have been looking at streaming. Trouble is we don't have strong internet so we are exploring options. By the way I put your $29.95 satellite bill in an inflation calculator. Guessed at that was 1992 so it said that bill should now be $68.45.

 

[Rudi]

TV has degenerated over the years, along with most sports. Sad.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I've mentioned before that I live pretty elevated in the city so when our Satellite signal goes out I get a boatload of stations on antenna TV signal. It's pretty cool what channels are floating around out there for free.

 

[robvious]

there are hundreds of channels now... and still nothing worth watching... they didn't make more creative people... so it is just less creative people cranking out volume not substance

 

[Rustyt1953]

Boomers are no longer the targeted demographic for televised sports.

 

[twodog max]

I am dropping Dish after the new year. My wife was the TV watcher and since she passed in September 129.00 a month to look at Dishscapes, and occasional western and Perry Mason is about 125 to much. I have fiber optic so I will go another route for TV or just quit cold turkey.

 

[fordson]

We had Direct TV for over twenty years. We were watching maybe half a dozen of so channels , including the local stations for local news and weather. We cut the service in ‘20, haven’t really missed anything since. We have Amazon prime, so we get that service and we get Netflix because our phone service contract provides it for free. And we really don’t watch much of those services either as the TV has become less prominent in our daily lives. As someone else here pointed out, us older folks are not the demographics TV is now focused on. I want entertainment or news, I come here, to the SW forum- I get a chuckle or learn something new almost every day…..

 

[Farmer17]

For most of my life I was a couch potato and watched a ton of TV and sports. Now at 65 if I watch it in the evening it just puts me to sleep. I LOVED college football but now its unregulated, low grade professional football that's all about money and high salaries for players so I've watched very little this year. When I got divorced 6 years ago I felt like I needed to get in better shape and joined a boot camp and a boxing class and also bought some skis and joined a ski club and started going snow skiing again. Then came the mountain bike and I started riding the local trails and loved it and bought a bunch of new guns and started shooting rifles and handguns more and got into sporting clays. My new wife and I started backpack camping in the mountains and hiking and we play pickleball with a group about 7 hours a week. We may rent a movie sometime or watch a little TV before we go to bed but I found that I'm much happier and feel better when I'm not watching TV and the news.

 

[quikdraw67]

We dropped satellite at the end of March. I don't miss it but my wife does so we have been looking at streaming. Trouble is we don't have strong internet so we are exploring options. By the way I put your $29.95 satellite bill in an inflation calculator. Guessed at that was 1992 so it said that bill should now be $68.45.

Pretty good guess! 1993 actually. Of course, i was making like 10 bucks an hour then, so it seemed like a lot.

 

[Bekeart]

So many channels of garbage ...

"Television and the Public Interest", was a speech given by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton N. Minow to the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters on May 9, 1961. Popularly known as the "Vast Wasteland speech", it was Minow's first major speech after he was appointed chairman of the FCC by then President John F. Kennedy.

P.T. Barnum said nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

I worked in TV as maintenance engineer for many years.
Station carried Insipid Soap Operas.
Female audience was more interested in the "lives" of Soap Opera cast members.

I have not owned a TV set since 1964.
Several years ago I Won a set in a drawing.
Offered it for sale a Half of Wal-Mart price.
Quickly SOLD!

Bekeart

 

[bullmack]

Amazon Fire TV. Google it. Get it. $31 per month once you’re set up. You get Everything. EVERYTHING.

Fire TV gives you access to most or all of the various streaming options (for example: Netflix) but you still need to have a subscription to any streaming channel you want to watch.

I have a rural vacation home with no cable TV. Until recently it has had real slow internet so we've had a DISH subscription. About $150/month for the channels we wanted. I now have 1 gig fiber internet and I'm switching to YouTube TV for half the price, and more channels (particularly sports).