(11-01-2016 10:54 AM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(11-01-2016 10:42 AM)freshtop Wrote:  I pay $66 a month to Comcast for 90mbps down + 50ish channels (mostly locals and HBO). I provide my own DVR (HDHOMERUN Prime + WMC on an old laptop) so no extra fees. My phone is paid for by my work, my wife is on a 10+ person family plan with other family members for around $16 per. I get most everything I want through local channels (WKYU being available helps a ton in that regard, even though I am more than an hour West of BG). On the rare occasion that I do want to watch something on ESPN, I have login info from work that I can "borrow". If ESPN offered a $5- $10 streaming package I would consider paying for it during football/basketball seasons. I also have the Netflix family plan (4 concurrent streams) that I split with 4 family members.

You are getting by cheap....

I don't have 4 family member I can split with...I have 4 but I would end up paying for the other 3 :)

Let me ask you a question...could you pick up the Western station before digital? Owensboro is a hour north of BG and when it was over the air and before I got reinvested with the program in 2000 and making the drive....

I could get a very snowy picture in on some nights. But most games I had to climb on the roof turn it a few different ways just to get that.

So a HD antenna gets picks up 60-70 miles? With DirectV i get to record most games but some like the ODU game I don't.

It depends on what antenna you buy. Some can go super far. Mine reaches about 30 miles, which is all I need since I live in the city. Any stronger and I would have started to pick up Dayton, OH stations. It also depends on where you live, the flatter the terrain the further your antenna will reach. You can use https://www.antennaweb.org/Address to figure out what antenna you want.

tvfool.com is a great site as well. I find it gives more detail than atennaweb, but uses the same color coding.

Thanks I may have to look into getting one of those just to pick up the Western channel or at less try

(10-31-2016 11:18 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  When you start picking what channels you want....

consumers are not going to like what they cried about wanting. In the end you will be paying close to what you are today only for a lot less choices. Already seeing it and prices never go down, only increase.

Right now by the time someone pays for Hulu, Nextflix, Roku, or Apple TV or some other for a sports package....

you are already paying close to what a middle range Directv package. You might only watch 20 to 30% of the channels often. But it's good to have them when you do want to watch something on a channel you never watch.

Right now a person is probably paying $50 a month for Hulu, or Nextflix, and Roku TV. Not to mention that most "cord cutters" end up going up at least one level on their internet service. With TW that adds another $20 a month. So now you are paying right at the same I'm paying for the 250 channels I hardly watch. But at least I can get to one with in a second and no waiting on buffering

You couldn't be more wrong. We pay a total of $51 a month for high speed Time Warner internet, Amazon Prime and Netflix. We've paid around the same for wi-fi since 2013. And we don't "bundle", just pay for wi-fil.

Living in Lexington, with a $10 antenna, we pick up 18 free channels, and many Marshall games have been shown over the years.

With life being what it is with three kids, who has time to watch enough TV to justify paying over $100 a month? I don't see it at all, and it's not just a trend. I may consider Sling, but even then, we still are under $80 a month, and I would be set.