Two decades ago, when I lived in New York City, I my only outlet for cable was Cablevision. Cablevision was expensive. The service was crap, and they wouldn’t even pay for the TV Guide Channel that scrolled up with the programming on every channel. Hell, Cablevision wouldn’t even carry Fox News which was literally 16 miles away from my apartment! Cablevision always played hardball with the networks during major television events such as the Oscars and sports playoffs. As Cablevision gave its subscribers nothing, James Dolan spend a billion dollars on Madison Square Garden, millions more on Radio City Music Hall and millions on Nobody beats the Wiz! A discount electronics store, that sold defective goods! Then came satellite dishes and then Verizon Fios! Fios offered fiber optic television with all the bells and whistles for the same rate or sometimes cheaper than the competition.
Today; Fios has become Cablevision. You need a tech to fix their stuff, your going to pay. Then they really get you! You pay Fios every month to rent their cable boxes. I was told I needed to upgrade my boxes. So I went to the local Verizon store which is a step above Cablevison’s version of the DMV. Looking in the store told me that Verizon is about cell phones, not landlines and not cable. I went to upgrade my boxes and I was told that I I had to pay an additional $50 on top of my monthly equipment rental charge! We are also stuck with paying sports franchise charges, to watch sports! My family does not watch sports!
Now; since Fios can’t come to agreement with networks, they drop the channel and you see a disclaimer that the channel was dropped. This happened to OAN and the CW! In New York legendary station WPIX Channel 11 is a CW affiliate. And Version customers in the New York area can’t watch WPIX! There is 4 or 5 stations that Verizon dropped and currently broadcast nothing.
Meanwhile with smart televisions, the networks have smartened up and offered their own platforms where cable is not needed. You have Hulu, HBO Max, the Paramount Channel and Disney Plus. You also have Netflix, Tubi, Amazon Prime, Apple TV and others! People like myself are “cutting the cord” as they no longer need cable thanks to Smart televisions! Think about it; we got rid of pay phones 20 years ago thanks to cell phones. We got rid of home phones thank to cell phones. Now we are getting rid of cable thanks to the Smart tv and high speed internet!
As for me I have no landline and no cable at my new place! I also don’t have internet, but I went to the T-Mobile store to give them money. But I walked away! The girls behind the counter must have worked at the Verizon store!
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