We finally turned off cable TV, only have Internet

[Baked Potato]

We are saving $200 a month, all that from Spectrum TV and DVRs. We have not missed anything. The only downside is no Live MSNBC, but we get NBC news which runs relevant clips from Rachel.

We love Film Noir and get 100s and 100s of movies on YouTube. We used to watch them on TCM. YouTube has 1000s of movies. We have a free year of Disney+ from Verizon. We watch Good Doctor the following day on ABC on internet.

Our TVs are Roku and we love all the free TV that App provides. There is Pluto TV with Comedy channel, Game Show Network, etc., 100s of free channels. There are Western channels, Crime drama channels, news, whatever.

We get local news from any city we want, no TV antenna needed. We just got to figure out how we gonna get the MLB package this year. Probably pay for that one, but just have to have baseball.

[jojog]

1. You can get MSNBC with a Hulu package. nt

[Baked Potato]

2. OK, thanks. We may go that route for all the old TV shows too.

[csziggy]

19. Or with Sling or with YouTube TV

Sling you have to add the News package, which is only $5 over the price for whichever package you get. Not sure how YouTube TV works it since right now I am on Sling.

[rurallib]

3. MSNBC live news stream link:

https://www.livenewsmag.com/msnbc-news-live-stream/

works for me daily

[CountAllVotes]

4. Thanks

I don't have cable TV any longer either.

I do like MSNBC at times!

[Baked Potato]

7. Thank you!

There is so much free TV we really wished we did this a loooooong time ago.

[CrispyQ]

28. Thank you!

[CousinIT]

5. Sling has MSNBC

not free though.

[highplainsdem]

6. Another MSNBC link:

https://livenewschat.eu/politics/

[Baked Potato]

8. Thanks!

[highplainsdem]

9. Also this link for MSNBC, and you can get links to other cable news channels there as well:

https://www.livenewsnow.com/american/msnbc.html

[Baked Potato]

16. Thanks!

[abqtommy]

10. Since my son lives with me I have to consider his wishes and the fact that he pays his share.

So we have internet and cable tv. I like having the tv on while I'm doing important stuff like posting
ops and replies on DU. Sometimes the cable pays off. A couple days ago our Comcast channel 1766 binge-ran a bunch of Betty Grable movies and today it's Shirley Temple. That's a win for me.

[Baked Potato]

13. Yeah, I hear you,

We had Spectrum for 10 years. With just internet and ROKU we have every channel we ever watched before. There is a channel called Pluto TV which has 100s of TV series to watch. And there’s free movies everywhere.

[Shermann]

27. I used to do that with CNN

But they loop the same obnoxious prescription drug commercials over and over.

Why is there no commercial free 24-hour news channel?

[samnsara]

34. i love the old shows! Im finding Ozzie and Harriet to be some of the funniest..

...writing of their time.

[Baked Potato]

11. Hi, in case anyone wondering about the local news app we use

Search on ROKU for NewsON. That gives local news channels.

[highplainsdem]

17. I think most local news stations livestream their news, too, on their websites.

[LizBeth]

12. I have amazon fire. I guess that gives me a lot of what you are talking about.

I buy netflix and a daughter buys prime time. I mostly watch what is on those but I have to explore the pluto and other apps? I guess. I would like news sometimes. Maybe I can find it somewhere. It is all too much for me mostly. I dropped cable 7 years ago. So glad I did. I am not a huge tv watcher but sometimes I will do binge watching of a series. Right now, I turn on Bones. I have watched that series a couple times.'

[Baked Potato]

14. Yeah, I think Fire is the same as ROKU.

YouTube has tons of free movies.

[LizBeth]

15. I read that in your post. That is what had me thinking I need to explore.

I have gone on the youtube app and watched pods and clips but didn't know it had movies. Thanks.

[yellowdogintexas]

20. they do the same thing but are not exactly alike

For example, Free Speech TV is a free channel on ROKU
I can't even get it on my Firestick.

I recently discovered the programs that are actually part of the ROKU itself. I finally found "Major Crimes" the sequel series to "The Closer" and a bunch of movies and other shows.

[kairos12]

18. We went with Sling.

[hunter]

21. My wife and I quit Comcast a long time ago. Then we quit broadcast television as well.

We never see any television commercials.

It's been more than a decade now.

Netflix is $8.99 a month and we also rent movies from the Redbox at our neighborhood grocery store. That's plenty of television.

We have an inexpensive DSL internet connection.

I think television news and opinion is worthless.

Television made trump and to me that's unforgivable.

[Baked Potato]

24. Good for you guys,

we are so glad we turned it off. We were so spoiled with the recording ease with the DVRs. Our last child still with us, well she’s 35 lol, has Netflix so we’ve been using that too. Thanks for your comments.

[hunter]

31. One of our kids who is a huge fan of low and medium budget movies and television...

... set us up with Netflix.

Our children, nephews, and nieces simply don't understand cable or broadcast television. They control their televisions with their cell phones. There's no channels to change, no need for a remote control. Most use Chromecast.

Besides Netflix, I don't know what streaming services they subscribe to.

[Baked Potato]

32. I just recently learned I can control the TV and YouTube on my iPad through ROKU.

So, I can sit on the couch and sneak in music videos I like.

[Kaleva]

22. I pay 29.99 a month for Spectrum cable internet, 11.99 for Hulu and 80 some a year for Prime

Amazon offers a discount to vets on about Veterans Day and the cost for a year's subscription to Amazon Prime was less then $90.

We used to get internet from the local telephone company but the download speed was less then 30 Mbs and the cost was $56 a month. Now our download speed is 58 Mbs and the monthly cost is almost $30 less.

[Baked Potato]

25. Hi, eventually we may get Hulu

for the older TV shows we missed while raising a family. Our internet went from $50 a month to $70 when we turned everything off. But, it’s fast and it’s been pretty reliable, so we’re happy.

[retread]

23. I really enjoy the baseball available to streamers. If you are a T'Mobile customer I believe

they are giving MLB.tv subscriptions to customers again this year.
If you join the MLB Player's Alumni Association(MLBPAA) for $25 you can get a subscription to MLB.tv for 1/2 price. Saves about 20-30 dollars. They black-out games local to your region, but games involving teams that would be difficult to follow otherwise are available. Most of my viewing in August-September last year was from games in the National League East and Central divisions.

Look into Minor League streaming also. It can be a pain in the tush as the app is hideous! Last year I used a browser and streamed games from the MiLB web site. In A and even AA ball a lot of the stadiums are much more intimate and involved in the proceedings.

[Baked Potato]

26. Hi, thanks for the info on MLB

Not a T Mobile customer, but Verizon. We are Braves fans pretty much because when I was in the service TBS was in every state so we could watch them everywhere we moved to. It would be nice to just get Fox Sports South for Braves, but we will try to get them all some how.

Gonna have to look at the MLBPAA deal you mentioned. Thanks! And thank goodness it’s Spring Training ! Lol

[Bengus81]

29. Check and see if your ISP has data limits like COX does.......

If you watch a lot of TV at 1080p you can easily go past their 1TB monthly limit. I can't WAIT for the day when I can get comparable speed Internet and tell COX later days. I canceled my cable TV with them two years ago and haven't missed it at all. In fact the tier I had which was next to the lowest was nothing but home shopping network type shows and loads of Pray TV BS and million commercials per day. WHY would anyone pay for that nonsense?

I might add,get a good TV antenna (outside one will always be better) and watch just how many channels you can get for free and in HD. Instead of streaming I watched the Super Bowl though my outside antenna in full 1080p HD and didn't use a byte of Cox's precious data.

[Baked Potato]

30. We would have changed internet providers too,

but Spectrum is still the best in our area. We also were tired of paying for 100s of channels of BS. Not once were we ever offered any deals or discounts from them. When we brought our box of DVRs in to cancel, they didn’t even try to keep us on. Nothing. We may get an outside antenna eventually.

[samnsara]

33. we have ROKUs everywhere.. you can get free PLUTO tv on Roku and the Roku Channel now!

..but we havent cut the cord. We have Dish and have subscribed to everything..

[Bengus81]

35. I also posted on a different post but see if your Pluto TV is working...

Mine hasn't for about 24 hours