MS NOW to Launch Direct-to-Consumer Offering Next Summer

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24. I haven't watched or listened to it

since the last election.

Moving to a streaming option is long overdue. Sadly I expect they will screw it up by charging too much for it AND expecting viewers to pay for ads.

The early streaming options caught the traditional cable TV companies by surprise. We moved to streaming around 2010. At the time it was a breath of fresh air compared to the high cost and bundled crap channels cable/sat tv forced viewers to pay for. Early streaming was no ads, watch what you want when you want at a much lower cost compared to cable tv.
Lately I see the old cable type greed trying to subvert streaming by turning it into a clone of everything that is wrong with cable tv. Now they want to charge us for ads on streaming services, force auto-play on some streaming services, tons of useless "free" channels that try to imitate the shitty cable tv experience.

Sadly streaming is showing signs of becoming the same shit show that cable tv became years ago.

I'll be surprised if MS NOW gets it right.

When we last watched MSNBC it did not offer an official streaming option. Despite that it was available in a web browser via third party websites that are probably considered "illegal" by their corporate bosses. I just checked. Those sites are still up.
I fully expect the MS NOW streaming option to screw it up. I'll check it out when its offered but if it goes the way I expect it to I'll just use the hinky website freebie version if I want to get sick of hearing Steve Kornacki's drivel.