My cable company has added Newsmax channel

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

Just going through the channel guide and noticed NMXD.

Armstrong cable.

Looked through the programs - Michelle Malkin Investigates, Huckabee.

Tuned in to Howie Carr show - on the phone was Kellyanne Conway.

I need this like I need a sharpie on a hurricane map.

[marble falls]

1. Ours affed mewsmax AND RT.

[Liberal In Texas]

2. How awful. Are they also carrying Free Speech TV

to try and be "fair and balanced?"

[Kaiserguy]

3. I have Newsmax

plus RT and a real piece of garbage called One America News which make Fox look all most like a moderate network

[doc03]

4. It's on Dish it is worse than Fox nt

[Initech]

5. DirecTV doesn't have Newsmax but we do have OAN.

[demosincebirth]

7. What is oan?

[Initech]

8. One America News - it's Trump's news network du jour.

If you want to get a glimpse of what state run TV would look like under the Trump administration, check out OANN. It's so far to the right that it is scary.

[demosincebirth]

19. Thanks, and no thanks.

[TwilightZone]

14. DirecTV has Newsmax.

It's 349. I know this because I took great joy in blocking it.

[Initech]

15. Now I have two channels to block!

[gratuitous]

6. For all the palaver about increased customer service and lower costs

You'd think that Congress would make cable access a cafeteria-style utility. For flat $20 a month, you get the broadcast stations in your area. Everything above that is available for a monthly charge, ranging from (say) a dime to five bucks. If you don't want ESPN (for example), you don't have to have ESPN, and you don't pay for ESPN. You want a "premium" channel, you pay a premium monthly charge.

Instead, we have all these "packages" that include dozens of channels customers don't want, but that customers have no option to refuse. This isn't the way most businesses operate. You don't have "required" groceries that you have to pay for whether you want them or not at the store. If you don't want power seat warmers on your new car, you don't have to pay for them anyway. Why does cable have to be this way?

[quickesst]

9. like Suddenlink....

....which I have, I'm sure that most if not all cable and satellite services offer an option akin to a favorites list, or the choice to add or delete a channel from your package lineup. That's how I got rid of all the religious, and QVC type channels. Suddenlink added newsmax to my package, and 2 minutes later it's like they didn't.

[hunter]

10. That's a good reason to quit cable.

You can get most television "a la carte" on the internet. That way none of your money goes to Newsmax, Fox News, etc.

My wife and I only subscribe to Netflix. It's $8.99 a month. We get our internet over the phone lines, not cable.

We don't watch any "traditional" television at all. Other than Netflix we watch DVDs we rent. I also find DVDs in thrift stores.

That's plenty of television for us and we never see any commercials.

Our adult children are similarly disconnected from traditional television in their own homes. I don't know what services they subscribe to beyond Netflix.

As many have noted here on DU once you quit traditional television you never go back.

I've never had any regrets about quitting Comcast.

[PBC_Democrat]

11. Don't Like It? Don't Watch It.

Problem solved

I have dozens of channels on my cable TV system that I never have/never will watch.

[maxsolomon]

12. The issue is Cable Companies putting their thumbs on the scale

Providing RWNJ propaganda across multiple channels, but where is the Liberal/Left option?

Propaganda works through repetition.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

16. Good idea. Wish I'd thought of that.

Here I've been wasting my time watching all those channels I don't like.

[lagomorph777]

20. But you're still subsidizing it.

[pstokely]

24. you pay for those channels you never watch or never will watch

cut the cord

[Crunchy Frog]

13. Cable cutting time?

[eppur_se_muova]

17. I was surfing channels and saw the Trumpy Bear commercial ...

... Newsmax, of course. Only recently added.

[NoPasaran]

18. Trumpy Bear

The first time I saw a Trumpy Bear commercial I was thought it was a joke. I'm still not entirely convinced it's not.

[lagomorph777]

21. I feel the same about Trump himself.

Especially since he looks like an orange Chia head.

[jalan48]

22. Trump brands most of the MSM as fake and voila!-cable news adds a new right wing news source.

It happens so slowly and incrementally the populace doesn't even notice the shift taking place in their nightly news.

[liberaltrucker]

23. Armstrong also carries Blaze (Glen Beck)

Here in Butler, PA.