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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Temp430 on August 29, 2023, 12:34:00 PM
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Just signed up for Peacock Premium for $2.50 per month for 3 months with the following promo code:
NTSEL3HMWTDP54N
Three months is just long enough to cover football season. After that you can cancel or let it go up to $5.99 per month.
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best post all week!
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thanks for the heads up!
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here is some more info
https://cordcuttersnews.com/peacock-to-stream-30-college-football-games-how-to-watch-schedule-more/
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Thank you!!
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So we get Peacock for free with Xfinity. The problem is, I flip around a lot on, and I have to open the app to access it. When MSU is playing on it, sure. Am I going to give up a flip around to watch UM-ECU? Hell no. I guess if you have YouTube TV or Hulu TV, or whatever, and have it, it's the same as any other channel, but if you still have cable, whether you pay for it or not, you have to leave cable, and enter the app
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They were discussing this on the Athletic college football podcast. It sounds like its awesome, but you don't get to choose the 4 games, and that even with a 62" TV, which the podcast hosts had, it was kind of hard to follow anything closely. It works for Redzone, because nobody actually cares about the game, you are just watching for fantasy, but if you actually want to see the game, you can't.
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yup, it's all bullshit with streaming
greatest thing ever but they can't put a "back" or "previous" button on the remote to toggle between two college or NFL football games.
F ing technology
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Just signed up for Peacock Premium for $2.50 per month for 3 months with the following promo code:
NTSEL3HMWTDP54N
Three months is just long enough to cover football season. After that you can cancel or let it go up to $5.99 per month.
Do you know how long this offer is good?
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glad I have 3 tvs.
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Do you know how long this offer is good?
No idea
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Thanks! I signed up. I've signed up for Peacock here and there before. The old school WWE content is gold.
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yup, it's all bullshit with streaming
greatest thing ever but they can't put a "back" or "previous" button on the remote to toggle between two college or NFL football games.
F ing technology
Yup.
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Live TV streaming services may have to pay more fees to the Federal Communications Commission if local TV station owners get their way. In total, it could cost live TV streaming services an extra $16.4 million. If this happens, it could put more pressure on live TV streaming services who have already jacked up their own prices.
This comes as local TV station owners earlier this month formed the Coalition for Local News to push the FCC to force cord cutting services to be treated like cable TV companies. If the FCC agrees to change the rules, it would force YouTube TV, Hulu, Fubo, and more to strike deals directly with the owners of local TV station owners instead of the big networks.
If the owners of ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC local stations succeed, live TV streaming services would need to pay a $1.23 fee per subscriber every year for the FCC regulatory fee imposed on cable TV companies, according to Ted Hearn, a policy expert who had worked for ACA Connects, who posted the stat on X (formerly Twitter). Based on a Leichtman Research Group study that found 13.4 million subscribers to live TV streaming services, the fees would add up to $16.4 million.
The Coalition, made up of 600 local TV stations owned by groups like Nexstar, earlier this year put out a new statement to back their push to change the FCC rule.
“The problem is that right now streamers secure the right to carry local stations not from the stations themselves, but rather through deals cut directly with the national networks—which in some instances are outrageously owned by the same entity,” the group said in a statement on their website. “As a result, the networks decide both how much streamers pay for local stations and how much of that value actually makes it to local stations. This system only exists because streamers are not yet subject to the same regulations that require traditional pay-TV providers like cable and satellite companies to negotiate directly with local stations.”
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well, Peacock got my $5.99 plus tax tonight
was thinkin bout either going to Lincoln for the game or to a sportsbar on the Nebraska side of the river
but, sprained my foot last night
walkin is a bitch
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well, Peacock got my $5.99 plus tax tonight
was thinkin bout either going to Lincoln for the game or to a sportsbar on the Nebraska side of the river
but, sprained my foot last night
walkin is a bitch
what have I told ya bout walking while drinking
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It would help to know at the beginning of the season how many times your team is going to be on Peacock. The Big Ten has not done a good job of explaining this.
I made a choice as an Iowa fan not to get Peacock because I expected Iowa to be on Peacock only once this season and part of me does not mind listening to one game a year on the radio instead. Plus I expect to be able to catch the Big Ten in 60 version on BTN about 5 days later.
Turns out Iowa has been on Peacock twice so far. Which if I knew that in advance I would have just ordered it for the 5.99 a month. Oh well.
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It would help to know at the beginning of the season how many times your team is going to be on Peacock. The Big Ten has not done a good job of explaining this.
I made a choice as an Iowa fan not to get Peacock because I expected Iowa to be on Peacock only once this season and part of me does not mind listening to one game a year on the radio instead. Plus I expect to be able to catch the Big Ten in 60 version on BTN about 5 days later.
Turns out Iowa has been on Peacock twice so far. Which if I knew that in advance I would have just ordered it for the 5.99 a month. Oh well.
I’ve been trying to time it out. I go to a bar for football games. So that settles that. There’s a basketball game tonight, but it’s at 9 PM and I just don’t wanna pay for some thing that might ruin my night and kind of keeps me in the house who is there’s something else I want to do.
I think I’ll pony up when they have like three games in a month later in the season. I’m trying to decide on what I’m gonna do about the Michigan State game in December. That might be a bar game. We’ll see.
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$6 Peacock
$6 One beer
Peacock wins.
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$6 Peacock
$6 One beer
Peacock wins.
Plus if you go to a bar you have to interact with other people. Lose lose.
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$6 Peacock
$6 One beer
Peacock wins.
I mean, I go to the bar for games anyway, so that a push.
And tonight I’m going to neither, so I save the $6. We’ll see how I feel about MSU.
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I'm generally not a big fan of people in bars. Or people, really. I do like some.
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I'm generally not a big fan of people in bars. Or people, really. I do like some.
It depends on the bar.
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Yeah, I don't have a big need to watch all my team's basketball games. When there is a big basketball game on one of the big networks, I will check it out, otherwise I am good. So once football is done, I have no more need for Peacock.
The twist as an Iowa fan is that women's basketball is probably more popular right now than the men, at least until Caitlin Clark uses up all her elligibility. But that works out OK too with ESPN carrying all the NCAA tourney games, so I am good there too.
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UW men host Tennessee tonight. It's on Peacock. Starts at 9PM here, so I might make it through the first half.
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It depends on the bar.
those Badger bars are turrible ;)
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None close enough to me to know about that. I'm not driving to Sarasota or Naples to watch a game.
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Turns out Iowa has been on Peacock twice so far. Which if I knew that in advance I would have just ordered it for the 5.99 a month. Oh well.
twice in the same month wouldn't be so bad
I assume they try to target as many fan bases as possible to hit all of them
of course Michigan and Ohio St. are protected
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UW men host Tennessee tonight. It's on Peacock. Starts at 9PM here, so I might make it through the first half.
I might watch
just to test run the pee cock
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watching the badgers on pee cock
seems to be just fine - with solid audio
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Peacock is running a promo for $19.99 for a year
I think I paid $6/month last fall?
I assume we be stuck with about the same number of games on peacock as last season
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Peacock is running a promo for $19.99 for a year
I think I paid $6/month last fall?
I assume we be stuck with about the same number of games on peacock as last season
Michigan is Peacock free for the first four games but I'd expect Peacock to get them for one game so I'd just go with the $5.99 in that case. Worst case scenario would be two Peacock games over a month apart.
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Just signed up for Peacock Premium for $2.50 per month for 3 months with the following promo code:
NTSEL3HMWTDP54N
Three months is just long enough to cover football season. After that you can cancel or let it go up to $5.99 per month.
I did the other special: $19.99 for one year, so next payment is June 2025. I did that so I could watch the Olympics, plus I can watch some tv shows I like. Mostly for sports my son and I split the cost and use Fubo from June to January/ Feb for college and pro football.
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Realistically I see really only 3 chances for UW to land on Peacock, and they are all in October. One of them is not Penn State.
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Realistically I see really only 3 chances for UW to land on Peacock, and they are all in October. One of them is not Penn State.
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Man that's a pretty fun looking schedule. I guess it's a bummer there's no Michigan OR Ohio State, but games against Alabama, USC, PSU, Oregon, and then your traditional rival Gophers to close out the season... things could be worse.
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Did you know you can pause your YouTube TV membership? Maybe it’s summer and you are busy, and you don’t watch it, so you don’t want to pay for it. Maybe you are traveling and don’t want to pay for it. The good news is you can pause your membership from four weeks up to six months. Here is how you do that, according to Google:
Open the YouTube TV app on your Android device or visit tv.youtube.com on a web browser.
Select your profile photo.
Go to Settings then Membership.
Use the slider to choose how many weeks you would like to pause your membership.
Click Pause.
That is all you need to do, and your YouTube TV subscription can be put on hold for up to six months.
This is one more great way cord cutting helps Americans save money. In the past when you had cable TV you signed a long-term contract that forced you to pay for TV even if you didn’t watch it. Now with YouTube TV you can put your subscription on hold when you don’t watch it to save money.
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Pulled the trigger yesterday. $20 for a year.
I could not believe that NBC decided to put the freaking US OPEN on this platform yesterday.
Whores.
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Pulled the trigger yesterday. $20 for a year.
I could not believe that NBC decided to put the freaking US OPEN on this platform yesterday.
Whores.
I wonder the extent to which all this streaming push is going to just reduce interest in sports in general.
It seems like they keep testing the waters to see how far fans will go. Hell, putting an NFL *playoff* game on streaming? That was just a test to see if they could monetize it. They think they have us over a barrel and we're just going to pay and pay and pay. But I think at some point, we're just going to stop subscribing and say "eh, this game / event isn't important enough to watch."
For me, with golf I'm lucky in that Hulu Live TV includes ESPN+, which broadcasts early round coverage of PGAT events. However, if it wasn't included, I wouldn't subscribe to it individually just to watch early round golf coverage. I'd wait until it's on the Golf Channel or networks. Likewise with the US Open, I would LOVE to have this early round coverage, but I'm not subscribing to Peacock just for that and maybe a few other sporting events in CFB/NCAABB. So I'm not watching the US Open coverage on Peacock. At least it's only the early rounds. But if the US Open entire tournament was ONLY available on Peacock? Still wouldn't subscribe, even though it's one of the four most important tournaments a year. It's not that important to me.
When these things get fractured into 17 different apps and NONE of them have everything, I think fans are just toing to throw up their hands and say they'd rather not watch than be piecemealed into all the apps.
Maybe it's just my internal curmudgeon, but when something is on an app I don't have, I don't look for ways to subscribe. I just watch [or do] something else. Not even Purdue games [now that I don't have reason to continue my boycott] are important enough for me to subscribe to Peacock, if it's only going to be 1-2 games per year. Even if it's only $20/year.
Sports are the most compelling content keeping live broadcasts going. But if you make them too hard and inconvenient to access, eventually you're just going to kill demand.
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I have Peacock ($20) and Paramount+ (free with 247 membership). Also Prime. Don't want anything more.
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Did you know you can pause your YouTube TV membership? Maybe it’s summer and you are busy, and you don’t watch it, so you don’t want to pay for it. Maybe you are traveling and don’t want to pay for it. The good news is you can pause your membership from four weeks up to six months. Here is how you do that, according to Google:
Open the YouTube TV app on your Android device or visit tv.youtube.com on a web browser.
Select your profile photo.
Go to Settings then Membership.
Use the slider to choose how many weeks you would like to pause your membership.
Click Pause.
That is all you need to do, and your YouTube TV subscription can be put on hold for up to six months.
This is one more great way cord cutting helps Americans save money. In the past when you had cable TV you signed a long-term contract that forced you to pay for TV even if you didn’t watch it. Now with YouTube TV you can put your subscription on hold when you don’t watch it to save money.
I still am pondering doing YouTube TV. Right now, I have Fubo TV, which can also be paused for up to six months - I did that last year after the football and volleyball seasons ended. Between that, Peacock, Paramount+ I am ok. My sister pays for Prime and my son pays for Disney+ and Netflix, so between the three of us, we have most of what we want to watch covered.
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Cord Cutting is growing faster than ever but many cord cutters are moving away from live TV service. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, over 1.2 million people canceled Comcast, Spectrum, and DISH. Now YouTube TV, one of the live TV streaming services that had seen subscriber growth, has reportedly lost 150,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter of 2024, according to a report from Craig Moffett.
This comes as increasingly cord cutters are looking to on-demand streaming services first and live TV second. YouTube TV faced that trend and the end of the 2023 NFL season likey driving the drop in subscribers as many cord cutters will wait until the 2024 NFL season this fall to subscribe again.
This drops comes as cable TV continues to lose subscribers. Comcast, Spectrum, and DISH lost over 13,700 TV customers every day in the first quarter of 2024. If this trend continues over 5 million TV customers will cancel TV from DISH, Comcast, and Spectrum. That would be up from the 3.260 million the three companies lost in 2023.
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I dropped SpectrumTV and moved to YouTubeTV last fall. But I still have no choice of internet providers, there's no fiber in my area so Spectrum cable it is.
When I unbundled they jacked up my internet rate and stacking YouTubeTV on top of it actually ends up being a little more expensive, but I also get a lot more channels with YTTV, and I have cloud-based DVR and stop/pause of live TV, which I lost when I just had the Spectrum streaming service.
So, there you have it. As always, it's clear as mud.
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I dropped SpectrumTV and moved to YouTubeTV last fall. But I still have no choice of internet providers, there's no fiber in my area so Spectrum cable it is.
When I unbundled they jacked up my internet rate and stacking YouTubeTV on top of it actually ends up being a little more expensive, but I also get a lot more channels with YTTV, and I have cloud-based DVR and stop/pause of live TV, which I lost when I just had the Spectrum streaming service.
So, there you have it. As always, it's clear as mud.
Did you consider Dish
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Did you consider Dish
I work from home often, the upstream speeds aren't fast enough.
We do use Dish for our tailgate setup of course.
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We have fiber. It's awesome.
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We have fiber. It's awesome.
They stopped laying it, literally, 3 houses down from me.
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They stopped laying it, literally, 3 houses down from me.
We have it from our HOA, built into that price. Includes two firesticks and all the channels we need.
We also have rabbit ears, just in case of a hurricane.
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ATT connected us up with fiber about a year ago
so far its been great
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I dropped SpectrumTV and moved to YouTubeTV last fall. But I still have no choice of internet providers, there's no fiber in my area so Spectrum cable it is.
When I unbundled they jacked up my internet rate and stacking YouTubeTV on top of it actually ends up being a little more expensive, but I also get a lot more channels with YTTV, and I have cloud-based DVR and stop/pause of live TV, which I lost when I just had the Spectrum streaming service.
So, there you have it. As always, it's clear as mud.
I looked that up when I switched away from cable TV. I too have [expensive] cable internet because there's no competition--only other internet option I have is 1.5 Mbps DSL from AT&T. And no, that's not a typo. It's 1.5 Mbps.
If I price a bundle from Cox with internet and TV, it's MUCH cheaper than internet + Hulu Live TV... For the first year. After that first year promo pricing goes away, it goes up massively, enough that when I compared the total 2-year price of service, Cox was higher despite the first-year savings. And that higher price persists indefinitely after that.
I suppose I could do things like subscribe and a year in threaten to cancel unless they give me the promo rate longer, but that's not my style. So Hulu Live TV it is...
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I have had Tmobile home internet for several years and I am very happy with it
My price is still $50 / month fir the last 3 years
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I need to sell more fiber
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