Remember it well , in the 50's, living in northern Montana , we had two channels, one coming out of Great Falls ,and the other Lethbridge out of Canada . Exactly, rabbit ears with the foil ,continually adjusting hoping for a better picture .
The 2025 NFL Season Discussion
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Quit cable tv three years ago was paying $195 a month now just antenna tv which is free.
kerrys
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I did a little research into this. The viewer total differences between streaming and broadcast are not that different with broadcast winning by a few tens of thousand viewers. The major reason for the nfl going to streaming services like Apple and Netflix is the money those services pay upfront to be able to exclusively stream the games.
MLB is going to the streaming model even more than the NFL.
Wouldn't it easier to watch it on a TV ?
... I'm on my couch, find that the most comfortable ...
In the early days of cable, it was $10 or $11 a month and zero advertisements, making it a good deal IMO. Now fvcking Netflix and Prime both include ads unless you pay a 50% premium on top of the basic subscription price. Greedy bastards is the natural and logical explanation.
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What I remember about antennas and adjusting them is I was alone and it was usually late at night and I was being introduced to the fifth dimension between light and shadow, science and superstition, fear and knowledge, which is the realm of imagination, known as the twilight zone.
We wait for all the episodes of a show we want to watch land, then join that particular content provider for a month to view the entire series. So aside from the usual cable TV lineup paired with our fiber internet pkg, the only provider we use throughout the year is Prime, as most of our consumer goods come from Amazon.
By selling their games around the internet to the top bidder, the NFL has done a wonderful job of turning formerly enthusiastic fans like myself into much more casual viewers, only watching the interesting games when available to do so.
Meanwhile, a primary gripe with the NFL remains the same - in a league which generates over 20B a year in revenue and every team is worth billions, the ref's remain part time contractors, lacking the ongoing training of full time employees = far too often making the wrong calls at the wrong times
By selling their games around the internet to the top bidder, the NFL has done a wonderful job of turning formerly enthusiastic fans like myself into much more casual viewers, only watching the interesting games when available to do so.
Meanwhile, a primary gripe with the NFL remains the same - in a league which generates over 20B a year in revenue and every team is worth billions, the ref's remain part time contractors, lacking the ongoing training of full time employees = far too often making the wrong calls at the wrong times
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Done away with Comcast cable bill of $130 a month when I found a deal at Costco for a dual buy of Roku. I also have an antenna with the foil on the ears. That is what I watch 85% of the time. I pay Amazon the "prime" for no shipping, but am charged $8.99 for their Roku channel, I thought it was for free if the Amazon Prime is paid for?
Bambooflyguy
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Definitely an ugly start again…..good thing we’re a second half winning team!! GO HAWKS!!
Bambooflyguy
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TOUCHDOWN……..SEAHAWKS!!!
I think they still would want the first overall pick so several teams would vie to trade up…since they have a first round qb already…
Bambooflyguy
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BIG D!!!
Bambooflyguy
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THAT’S WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT!!!
Bambooflyguy
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TD AGAIN FOR ZACH AND THE HAWKS!!! YA-HOOOOOOO!!!!
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