I've cut the cord for so long, do you people still watch 530p news and 8 & 9pm primetime TVs?

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BarkingGhostar

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I was about to cancel when my employer bought DirecTV and suddenly the bill went from $135/month to $15. Then the wife refused to let me cancel it. Same with the landline. I originally got 40% off and wanted to cancel it then they company changed it to free for employees. I pay for the Universal Service Fee $1.26/mo).
 

Muse

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The local news is not news. It is basically just a report of any shootings, car crashes, or traffic jams that happened in the last 24 hours mixed in with 10 minutes of weather. I don't know why anyone would want to watch it.
And now, how to get a vaccine appointment, what the skinny is on J&J vaccine, how local businesses are faring, what the prosecution and defense are doing in the Derrick Chauvin trial, the prosecution of the woman 25 year veteran cop who thought she was tazing an uncompliant motorist but shot and killed him with her service weapon instead and the continuing uproar in Minneapolis.
 

dank69

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And now, how to get a vaccine appointment, what the skinny is on J&J vaccine, how local businesses are faring, what the prosecution and defense are doing in the Derrick Chauvin trial, the prosecution of the woman 25 year veteran cop who thought she was tazing an uncompliant motorist but shot and killed him with her service weapon instead and the continuing uproar in Minneapolis.
All of that can be found in real time on the internet. The key is to limit your search to last 24 hours instead of last 5 months.
 

MrSquished

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The only cable/netork TV show's I watch are Top Chef and football in the fall. Other than that it's all streaming services, which do have some TV shows on them so it's kinda half a dozen of this, six of the other. Reading news sources and listening to NPR is where I get that stuff.
 

GodisanAtheist

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Lucky me, Comcast has "tied" a cable subscription with their internet service in my area, so if I want internet, I need to get a cable package as well. Feels illegal, but America.

I basically never turn on TV outside of some major sporting events. Everything else is done through my fire stick thanks to the (planned?) obsolescence of my 2015 Samsung SmartTV's smarthub. Pretty much the only thing it will play is Netflix and Amazon Video, the Hulu App is broken and it predates the Disney+ app by quite a ways.
 

Muse

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On Google or here?
Both... I figure here you just look at the page of thread titles for the forum you're interested in and the most recent posts float to the top, or do you have something else in mind? Of course, notifications for subscribed threads are chronologically shown off the bell icon. I get email notifications too.

Google "news last 24 hours" ???
 

dank69

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Both... I figure here you just look at the page of thread titles for the forum you're interested in and the most recent posts float to the top, or do you have something else in mind? Of course, notifications for subscribed threads are chronologically shown off the bell icon. I get email notifications too.

Google "news last 24 hours" ???
Here when you search go to advanced and there is a field for "posts newer than" where you can enter/select a date. On Google click Tools and you can set a time span.
 

Muse

Lifer
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Here when you search go to advanced and there is a field for "posts newer than" where you can enter/select a date. On Google click Tools and you can set a time span.
I see no "Tools" on my Google search page.Google search page.jpg
 

dank69

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I don't have that stuff under my search bar, just what you see in the graphic in my previous post: Google Search button and I'm feeling lucky button.
Search first, then on the results page you have the tools to refine the search
 

Perknose

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Youtube TV works for me. Got to have Sports, being 'Murican and all.
 

Muse

Lifer
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I am using Chrome, so that might factor into the lack of "Tools" etc. when I search with Google.
 

Muse

Lifer
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OK, I see. I search "news" click Tools and Any Time appears under the search bar. I can change that to 24 hours.
 

ultimatebob

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What's odd is that I noticed that Samsung has their own free TV package called Samsung TV Plus now. If you really wanted to watch cable TV news for free (and I'm not sure why you would, but whatever), you could watch it there without a cable subscription.
 

brianmanahan

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your bookmark goes to P&N instead of OT?

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manly

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What's odd is that I noticed that Samsung has their own free TV package called Samsung TV Plus now. If you really wanted to watch cable TV news for free (and I'm not sure why you would, but whatever), you could watch it there without a cable subscription.
This is just content from Pluto TV, repackaged. Thanks SamEsung!
The CNN feed on Pluto TV isn't the realtime cable broadcast, it's some tape-delayed version they'll give to the peons. Many of the other news sources also stream on YouTube. The CBS News channels are live simulcasts.
 

StinkyPinky

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I barely watch broadcast TV at all. Maybe CBS news once in awhile and that's free. I do prefer CNN but I ain't going to pay an entire cable sub just to watch it. Maybe CNN should enter the 21st century and offer it as an app for five bucks a month, I'd pay for that.
 

Red Squirrel

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About the only "cable" (using word cable for any form of non streaming live TV here) TV I watch is 1 channel I get at home OTA and at work we usually put the news on. I had cable at home through my FTTH package and while I did watch it, I felt I could live without it, and getting rid of it was a way to save a bit of money per month. Got rid of the land line at the same time and went with only internet and went with the lowest package. 15/20 is fast enough for my needs honestly. Was on 50/30 before that. With those changes I managed to get the bill under $100. Was paying around $160 for the bundle before. Not a bad deal if you're like a family and the services goes well used, but for just me I can live without it.
 

Muse

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your bookmark goes to P&N instead of OT?

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Yeah, P&N. For the last year it's my favorite forum. I check out OT plenty, but am interested in a higher percentage of the threads in P&N. Can't bookmark both, so I picked one... the one where some stuff will pop up that I for sure don't want to miss!
 

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Lifer
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About the only "cable" (using word cable for any form of non streaming live TV here) TV I watch is 1 channel I get at home OTA and at work we usually put the news on. I had cable at home through my FTTH package and while I did watch it, I felt I could live without it, and getting rid of it was a way to save a bit of money per month. Got rid of the land line at the same time and went with only internet and went with the lowest package. 15/20 is fast enough for my needs honestly. Was on 50/30 before that. With those changes I managed to get the bill under $100. Was paying around $160 for the bundle before. Not a bad deal if you're like a family and the services goes well used, but for just me I can live without it.
I get gigabit fiber now and they throw in free nationwide land line (they have to to keep their access to AT&T poles for their fiber cables) for ~$65/mo including taxes. Any streaming I'd do is extra, of course, but my Youtube free is now aces and never a hiccup (when they were providing me <5mbps DSL, before they got the fiber to my neighborhood) my YT was rather iffy/glitchy/undependable. I have Prime since the beginning of this year but I've yet to stream any video off it. I check out DVDs and BRs for free from my library, and those have the extras!

Tonight's the first night in months (really about a year) where I didn't at least intend to watch evening news. This is going to require withdrawal symptoms. A year+ of evening news is an addiction!
Last time I had an actual cable TV package was roughly 2012.
Last time here was around 1993, we had 1/2 dozen guys in the house sharing it.

I've been rooftop antennas for years and years. My newish 43" 4K TCL Roku TVs do a kind of half assed timeshifting. I get better timeshifting using a card in a desktop, and I've started using it not infrequently recently. I'll likely watch the Olympics using that system (with projector). It's great except the app is buggy. The screen will go black probably averaging every 3 hours and you have to get up and mess with the computer for a minute or so. Occasionally the computer will straight up lock up and I'll have to reset the machine, miss a few minutes of content and find where I was in the broadcast to resume. That happens probably around every 3-4 hours on average, it's AFAIK completely unpredictable. My particular computer might be involved in some of this but not all of it. It's probably the bugs in their software that led to the company going belly up (MIT MyHD cards). Macro Image Technology:

 
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