I think it’s unusual to have a multi-week blackout of CBS, NBC, ABC or Fox.
And the AT&T UVerse service was already way too expensive, the channel lineup was padded with almost entirely crap channels, and the Internet was ridiculously slow for the price. Even their phone service is way overpriced. Maybe people with satellite TV have only DISH as an alternative. Or they could get off their lazy ass and wire up an old fashioned antenna and use streaming for the rest. In my case I have 2 cable providers to switch to, and I’m going on my third or fourth week of seeing that annoying screen about poor, poor AT&T being the victim because CBS wants to charge more, and telling me to use Locast. Sorry, AT&T finally overcame my inertia. Every month I can’t believe how much I pay them for how little I get, the CBS thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back. This is like Arbys having a dispute with their supplier of little packets of Arbys and Horsey Sauce, so they give you a sad note instead of sauce, with suggestions of other places you could go for sauce. You didn’t really like Arbys anyway, so you just stop going there. I mean, you’d better be pretty confident in your customer loyalty or lack of competition to piss off your customers over a few pennies. Unless your margins are really that thing, which I assure you, is not the case with AT&T. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mike Hammett Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:02 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Aereo redux I meant to say that there's always something major missing on some major provider. ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Mike Hammett" <af...@ics-il.net <mailto:af...@ics-il.net> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 1:58:03 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Aereo redux You do realize that the same thing happens to every single TV provider, right? Comcast, Charter, AT&T, Dish, MediaCom, etc., etc. There's always some major network on some major TV provider. ----- Mike Hammett <http://www.ics-il.com/> Intelligent Computing Solutions <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> Midwest Internet Exchange <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> The Brothers WISP <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> _____ From: "Ken Hohhof" <af...@kwisp.com <mailto:af...@kwisp.com> > To: "AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group" <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 1:53:16 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Aereo redux AT&T is telling UVerse and DirecTV customers to use Locast (which they help fund) because of their retransmission fee dispute with CBS. I have AT&T at my house (I don’t live in my own service area), and my response is to switch providers. IMHO, AT&T is already charging me twice what they should, and now they can’t even deliver one of the 4 major networks? This is not my problem to fix, AT&T, for what I pay it is yours to fix. I am either going to switch my Internet to Wide Open West cable and use an OTA antenna for TV, or just go ahead and get the middle TV package from Wowway. In either case, I cut my costs in half or more, I get faster Internet, and I get CBS without some streaming workaround. I think AT&T will lose a bunch of customers over this. It’s not like they have great service or prices or Internet speeds to begin with, and their channel lineup is mostly crap. From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf Of Cameron Crum Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 11:23 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Aereo redux Not that I saw. On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 11:23 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote: Do they have any pause, record, dvr type functions? From: Cameron Crum Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 10:18 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Fw: Aereo redux I tried it out on my Roku. Works well. 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