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Been with Comcast but Jan 1st they dropped Spike TV and CMT and we watch a few shows on Spike and my wife watches a show on CMT sometimes. ok, I can switch to uVerse in my area but turns out they do not carry FOX in my area. WTF?
I can use one of the satellite services but then I need another provider for internet and in heavy rain the HD goes out. Here in South Florida that's like every after noon.
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I know it doesn't really help, but I cut the cord with paid TV and haven't looked back. The only reason I know anything about pay TV is because my mom has no clue how to move on. She simultaneously claims she doesn't even watch TV, while still demanding she can't stop paying for cable television. :dunno:
I'd say Sling TV, but neither channel is available. This is tough. Time to figure out the best of several bad options I suppose.
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buy the episodes you want from amazon or iTunes.
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I canceled Cablevision back in 2005. WAY overpriced and, terrible service. The first month was hard. I had a TiVo at the time so, the only thing I watched live was the news. EVERYTHING else got TiVoed. Suffolk County, NY Has a wonderful Cooperative Library system. Everything I've wanted to watch is available at one of the member libraries. Virtually everything that's on TV, becomes available on disk at the end of a season. I love being able to watch an entire season in a short period of time. I've always had Unlimited Data on my ATT iPhone so, I had basic internet. For news, I turn on my radio. When I need / want a high speed internet connection, my library is .5 miles away. I find I can connect to a variety of WiFi signals at home via a good antenna. Cablevision has been trying to lure me back with a "No Contract" $25 / month Internet. It would only be 5mbs down and, there's still the fact that I HATE Cablevision so, it has NOT been hard to resist their offer.
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testcase,
5Mbps down for $25 isn't great. As you noted, you probably pay about the same for unlimited cellular and get to take it with you. 
Ps. I really like your plan.
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I cut the cable for TV about a year ago. Very happy with the decision.
Bought a digital antenna on an Amazon Gold Box special for around $15; can pick up all my local channels plus a few regional ones. So I'm good for local news, weather watching (I'm in Central AR, so tornados), and occasional weekend sports.
I have an AppleTV and a Roku. Most of my watching is purchased/rental movies on AppleTV. Also subscribe to Netflix and Hulu. Got the Roku for Amazon Prime offerings, initially, but also subscribed to AcornTV ($49/year; lots and lots of British TV). Neither of those are currently available on AppleTV but, once they are, I'll drop the Roku altogether.
Cable Internet bill started at about $50/mo (Comcast) for very good download speeds (40 to 70) and unlimited data. We use between 500GB and 1TB a month, so when data caps rolled out, I opted into their "unlimited" service for an additional $35/mo. Not great but there's no other (real) options in my area. (I reminded Comcast that when I signed up for their Cable Modem service, it was sold as "unlimited" but they said "yes, but that was a different definition of unlimited", so whatever.)
Depending on which shows you wat watch (you didn't mention which ones from Spike/CMT), they may be available on something like Hulu or at least another streaming channel.
Don't cut the cord thinking you are going to save money.
That's a myth, more or less -- kind of like all the people I knew back in the 80s who bought satellite dishes (the big ones) thinking they were going to get all their TV for free, and then the channels started scrambling everything. What's going on with streaming services is the modern-day equivalent of that.
No, I dumped cable TV because it was all commercial-ridden shit. DVR or no, it just wasn't worth what I was paying. I'm currently pretty happy with the streaming services I use; I can do it a la carte and watch when I want to watch. Right now, commercials are not an issue, but I suspect they eventually will be.
Example; Fox has a service (I forget if it's Fox Now or FX Now) that has every Simpsons episode. Sometimes I'll get a commercial mixed in with it. Only a single one, but if you binge watch it's the same one each time there's an interruption. It's not a big deal. As older family members have told me, this is what it was like in the dawn of the TV age -- a show was brought to you by a single sponsor, so you got a single sales pitch, usually at the halfway mark and maybe at the end.
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Actually, I do save money. I haven't paid more than $45 for Internet in a few years now. Netflix is another $8, Prime another $8ish (depending on promotional rates) and I might add YouTube Red at some point as well. Doubt I'll carry all three, probably drop back to just two. For years, we just had Netflix at $8/month.
Edit: You know what I miss? The days you could have a radio that picked up the audio from the broadcast stations. I could listen to shows, news, some sporting events, all with a cheap radio.
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silvarios wrote:
Actually, I do save money. I haven't paid more than $45 for Internet in a few years now. Netflix is another $8, Prime another $8ish (depending on promotional rates) and I might add YouTube Red at some point as well. Doubt I'll carry all three, probably drop back to just two. For years, we just had Netflix at $8/month.
Sorry, I meant more in terms of when the splintering begins; i.e., when more networks set up their own streaming channels at $6 to $20 a month. Case in point; there's a strong rumor going around that CBS will pull all the STAR TREK series from Netflix and Hulu as well as Amazon Prime (which was announced last week) for its new CBS Now service. That will continue as more providers realize they can cut out the middleman and take in direct profits.
More evidence: BBC pulling Doctor Who from Netflix and Hulu: http://nerdist.com/uh-oh-doctor-who-epis...-for-long/
Star Trek leaving Amazon Prime, Netflix (maybe Hulu) (rumor): http://trekmovie.com/2016/01/25/rumor-is...e-netflix/
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Turner Classic Movies.
There IS no substitute.
I simply have to have cable. Plus we're about to go into 30 days of Oscar. Puh-leese.
Just watched this yesterday:
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