Our entertainment is an ouroboros constantly digesting itself.ĭo something else! Play a videogame. For most of us, informational programming (the last bastion of decent TV) is now largely replaced with preachy documentaries and voyeuristic glimpses into the lives of shitty, but dramatic people. There's such a limited subset of permitted stories and things that can be said that the whole thing is boring in its homogenization. And then we bitch and complain when the people cracking this whip make it more obnoxious, more expensive, and even less entertaining.Įvery show feels the same.

This isn't entirely relevant, but I just want to say I am sick of our society's obsessive fascination with TV. If your contract doesn't allow monthly increases, that can sometimes not apply to fees (either increases to existing or new ones).

Administrative/Convenience Fees (rarely this can be reduced by jumping through hoops e.g. HD TV Fee (often if your equipment SUPPORTS HD then you are required to pay it) Broadcast TV Fee + Regional Sports Fee (unavoidable) Equipment fee (main box cannot be avoided, additional boxes can be) They're just unavoidable parts of the service's price that the cable/satellite vendors split off to misrepresent the costs. But a lot of the 'fees' have nothing at all to do with government. The taxes are, well, taxes and also apply to streaming TV. But in my experience each discount is less and less generous relative to what they're advertising. Sometimes you can keep threatening to cancel, take out a new 12-24 month contract, and keep the 'discounted' price. Advertised discount price (12-24 month contract) All the big four providers of cable/satellite have the following pricing: That being said, as someone who helped family move off of cable in the last year, this is only inching closer to cable's headline pricing which is largely a fiction. Sports fans should pay for sports instead of everyone subsidizing it. I dislike price rises, and related I dislike paying for expensive sports licensing I don't watch.

Fubo quarterly plan