How many TV CHannels do you have? How many do you really watch?
By snowy
@snowy22315 (179740)
United States
March 18, 2017 10:20am CST
We pay for a huge amount of channels that are barely watched. Roomie watches a lot of them. I think most cable companies are now going to cafeteria plans where you can select the channels you want to watch instead of programming packages. I would kill for something like that..but I can't switch right now. Out of 250 channels I bet 10 are watched with any frequency.
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@Marilynda1225 (82584)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I would love being able to pick the channels I watch but so far our cable company doesn't offer such choices. We pay a large amount monthly which includes lots of channels we don't watch
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@ochie_ochie (178)
• Indonesia
18 Mar 17
woah i just have local channel because i dont use cable tv and it need more pay for cable tv. i rarely watch tv since im busy with work hehe
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
We don't have cable here, we just use an antenna. It works for us. =)
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
When I first moved here I had an antenna before the signals were switched. and the cable was installed.I got one local station.
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
18 Mar 17
@snowy22315 Oh wow, we get 15 channels and it's fine for us plus we watch DVD's too. The kids have a cartoon channel, and we have a few channels we like too. =)
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@LovingMyBabies I could probably live with that! Although I do like some cable programming.
@besweet (9859)
• Ireland
18 Mar 17
I don't watch TV at home. I have the free version and we don't pay for the channels. My boyfriend has a contract that provides a huge variety of international channels but he only watches a few of them. I have asked him to end the contract but he still wants it for the athletic channels.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I don't have unlimited internet or I would get a fire stick or something like that
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
@besweet They are supposed to..but the whole thing is moving like molasses in January..I'm not holding my breath!
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@besweet (9859)
• Ireland
18 Mar 17
@snowy22315 That would be a great alternarive. Do you think that the internet lines will expand in your area sometime in the future?
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@FourWalls (67380)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I have the "mega package" (everything except movie channels like HBO). What I actually watch: MLB, the Travel Channel, Turner Classic Movies.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Yeah we have one huge package..we need to downgrade
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@allknowing (135331)
• India
19 Mar 17
We now have DTH SERVICES that allow us to choose our own packages. I have aTatasky Connection
@WendySpickerman (983)
• United States
18 Mar 17
I don't have cable or dish. If I watch anything it's on DVD, Netflix, Hulu, and Feelin. Though I did just unsubscribe to Feelin. I felt they didn't offer enough new things each month. I like it for shows from BBC or more Family Oriented shows but the problem was. My targeted areas were never getting new monthly things. Maybe once in 5 months. So I did cancel that. Other than that I use the internet to watch things I like. And the girls don't miss it at all because they're the same. Pretty much our t.v. is used for DVD, gaming or Vudu movies. I love my VuDu. So you might be thinking how do I keep up with news, weather etc. Well, I'm in journalism all that comes right to me and most the time, I'm reporting it. lol I have to admit it's a pretty cool feeling to break with something at 3 a.m. while Fox and CNN don't cover it until 1 p.m.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Ideally we would migrate to a lower package and just use Netflix to make up for the ones we aren't getting..but I can only stream after Midnight or it costs big bucks.
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@JohnRoberts (109846)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Mar 17
No matter the tier, we are all stuck with a majority of channels we could care less about.
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@snowy22315 (179740)
• United States
18 Mar 17
Some plans are allowing you to choose channels. I think all cable, sattellite companies will eventually migrate to that in order to compete with things like fire stick
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