Fuck Spectrum and Disney

you might have to wait in line for ESPN and their mother seeing as how they have a busy scheduled position as the SEC's community concubine.  Skiing full time over there.

Cut the cord!

Good to know.

Relax a little Mr Beam.

We cut the cord this time last year and have never looked back once. Heck, we even ditch YouTube TV in the offseason and really don’t miss it. The amount of TV we watch has gone down considerably, and outside of college football/NFL, 95% of what we watch is on streaming anyway. 

Not a coincidence this happened at the start of football season. Disney needs to gouge the consumer for every cent they can and waiting until now they’re hoping the public outcry will be enough to get Spectrum to cave. Disney stock is in the tank and at the lowest price in 9 years and I expect it to continue to drop, they gotta get some positive cash flow coming in because almost all of their divisions are under performing.

It's all about these massive rights fees for football. Everyone wants their cut, and there's been so much cord-cutting lately that they need to squeeze more out of the people still paying for cable and the now-just-as-bloated streaming packages.

We're starting to see signs of stress in the system. No one wanted the Pac-12 at $30 million per team per year. Now it's an arms race (Big Ten at 18 teams, ACC probably at 18 by next week, Big 12 and SEC at 16) to extract as much as possible before it all implodes.

I like my Tablo. No ESPN or BTN, but I think we've saved about $5k since cutting the cord, and the networks are just fine over-the-air. Maybe even better when I set it up to run the signal directly from the antenna and not from the antenna through our wireless.

Keep your internet and jailbreak a fire stick. Cable is a scam people are waking up to. 

I noticed that last night, too. This is such a middle finger to the consumer, from both companies. And then they both sit there and wonder why they're losing subscribers hand over fist.

I hate, absolutely hate that they aren't doing anything to put the game on reg TV for at least the locals. My grandpa who looks forward to watching every game is pretty darn upset 

edit : jumped the gun, Thought this was a post about the game being on peacock. We cut the cable cord 4+ years ago. no regrets 

*insert witty pun about pirates*

Cancel it and start streaming a service. It takes minutes. You can always go back later. Just buy a $20 firestick and you’re all set. 

I'm here to add on to the fucking of Disney and Spectrum.  Scumbags.

The continuation of people trying to extract every possible dollar they can from college football fans while also making the product slightly worse every year. The insatiable desire for ever increasing profits on CFB are going to ruin the sport

ESPN’s broadcast last night for a prime time game was terrible. They had their A cast and it felt like it was the D cast: Fowler and Kirt had a rough night and seemed tried or disinterested, the sound production was bad, and overall production quality seemed terrible. Other than losing MNF for my Bengals good riddance to ESPN and Disney, glad Big Ten is out of that mess. 

I met Spectrum’s mother.  She was really nice. I’m not sure what happened with Sprectrum but I don’t think you can make this about her.

Sir, I like this better as a G rated site.

Sling ads all over this post. haha

Oliver Anthony, is that you?

Grew up loving Disney, everything from the classic movies to the golden era of the 90's and Marvel studios for the first 10 years.  Took my family to Disney twice during the '00s, and took a Disney cruise 10 years ago (it was awesome).

Now, they have absolutely lost their way, lost sight of what made them special, greed and poor business decisions are ruining an iconic American institution.  And the worst part is their choices are spilling over into other American institutions (college football) and slowly ruining that as well...

As for Spectrum, I cut the cord a year ago, best decision I have ever made.  I have the freedom of choice to turn services on and off as I please.  Signed up for Peacock for $2.5 / month, but certainly plan on dropping it in January.  Signed up for YTTV for football season, but again, come January I'll drop that as well....

The fact that huge corporations are willing to screw over their paying customers because some over priced lawyers cannot agree on slicing up the money pie is unforgivable...

Spectrum can suck it. Disney can suck it. There is very little content on tv anymore worth watching. I held on for years basically for news and sports. Most sports honestly aren't worth watching anymore. Even college football is in a state of serious decline. None, I mean none, of the cable news networks bury more than an once of truth into their unending brainwashing of their viewership. Its insulting that the CNNs FoxNews and MSNBCs of the world think their viewers are brainless based on the garbage they air most of the time. Disney spent that last decade neglecting/ignoring their cash cow, families with children, and all of the sudden it's a shock that attendance is down, movies are poor, and their limited streaming options have been exhausted by most. Stockholders need to demand that Disney be purged and reinvented as the current model is missing the mark, assuming it's not too late.

Just cancel cable and get YouTube TV.. 

Jumping on this train, but with a middle finger to Marquee Network (the Cubs network). First off, it's not available from every provider in Chicago. And then they have the gall to black out local games on MLB Network, so if your provider ( in our case, a Samsung Smart TV) doesn't have Marquee, there's no way to watch a Cubs game in Chicago. Miss the old days of three or four national channels and a couple local channels that carried local sports. The shows were better back then, too. Nowadays, there are hundreds of channels and I struggle to find something to watch. Back then, you'd have to choose between two great shows that were on at the same time. And no DVR coddling -- you had to make the tough choice and miss out on one of the shows. We were tougher back then. 

Cable and satellite are dying 

What does having an ESPN+ subscription have to do with Spectrum cable? Are you getting the subscription through your cable company? 

I can watch any ESPN/ABC content through ESPN+ irrespective of my cable account (Xfinity) status. 

I had to think for a minute why I didn't have an unstoppable urge to fuck Spectrum and Disney last night, then I remembered that I only have Spectrum for internet and YTTV for the TV portion.

But I'm there in spirit my brothers, Spectrum and Disney suck.

Soon all streaming, live sports, and your personal banking will be done on X.com.

Just here to plug the VPN + illegal streaming route.  Sportssurge is my go-to. Even if it's not your primary, it's good to have a backup when being tossed around by large corporations. I never miss a game, but will admit that I do have to restart the stream 2-3 times a game due to server instability. To me it's a fair tradeoff for HD streaming any sporting event I want for $10 a month. 

Last night I was at the main UF gator bar in Orlando to watch the game. Spectrum dropped the ESPN feed right at kickoff, it was amazing. 

I thought I'd do my part by placing my phone with the YTTV feed in front of the big screen. It got some laughs and applause.

Crazy!!!

Well OK then - got that all out? Good!

Welcome to the realization that they all gonna do what they gonna do and you then gotta do what you gotta do.

Find an internet provider and just have them be your pipe to your home. Then. Pick a device, like Roku, to handle the channel streaming. Then. Find a service (like Hulu or YouTube TV) to aggregate a bunch of "channels" to you. And yes, you will have to find a seemingly random outlier like Peacock for a game or two.

Annoying? Yep. 

Yes, this all sucks. But. It is what it is and you gotta do what you gotta do to be okay in the middle of all this turmoil. Relax - you got this !!!

I just saw that the first game is on Peacock.  I had not heard of it before.  I guess it's a streaming service.  How do you get it?  Why aren't these games on cable (including BTN) that I already pay a ton of money for?  Is Michigan trying to alienate its fans?

This is really annoying.

go You Tube TV...its the best imo.  Less bullshit to deal with and Ive been pretty happy with it. 

Yeah, that totally sucks. We cut the cord like 7 years ago and have never looked back. Spectrum? More like Rectum, am I right?

I have YouTube TV solely for college football. They let me pause my service whenever I want. I just reactivated it this week. It's like $65/month, I subscribe until the end of the year then pause it again until next August. It costs me less than $300/year and I have an antenna that picks up local channels so I can watch the NFL playoffs and other major sports events I care about, like the golf majors.