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3 minutes ago, Victorious1 said:

Disney missed their Q4 earnings number.  Only* did $22.46B on the expected $22.83B and stock has dropped 8% Thursday.

Oh those poor dears

Time for a price hike 

Posted
20 minutes ago, Victorious1 said:

I wonder if Disney's "fair market rate" offer to YTTV/Google would have made up the $403M?  If so, LMAO at YTTV for tanking Disney's stock.

30 million per week (in revenues or profit? Not sure) is the number so not that close. 

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7 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Let's say Disney stays off YTTV for good. Would anyone here still keep their YTTV without espn, ABC, etc?

No way.  At least for me my parents are against change and still have DTV.  Using their account number and streaming FTMFW. 

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Being that I am the only person in the family who watches the game.  I might continue with antennae and youtubetv and just plan on heading to the local watering hole to watch any games that aren't on ABC.   

Wife would love me out of the house for a few hours on Saturday.  

 

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26 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Let's say Disney stays off YTTV for good. Would anyone here still keep their YTTV without espn, ABC, etc?

Only if the subscription cost of YTTV was dramatically reduced. Without ESPN, ABC, FX etc.  I'd be willing to pay $15-20/month at most for the rest of the shit.

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12 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Being that I am the only person in the family who watches the game.  I might continue with antennae and youtubetv and just plan on heading to the local watering hole to watch any games that aren't on ABC.   

Wife would love me out of the house for a few hours on Saturday.  

 

Yea I know

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Posted
31 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Let's say Disney stays off YTTV for good. Would anyone here still keep their YTTV without espn, ABC, etc?

Nope, but I also don't feel like switching to another provider. I feel like I'm kind of over college sports right now anyway and I can buy individual packages for the Spurs and Austin FC so don't really have to spend more there. Dallas Stars' Victory+ is free too.  

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If they reduce the price than I probably will stay, but only cause I already get ESPN/Disney/Hulu for free via a legacy Verizon plan. 

Honestly my health has improved by not being able to watch Texas Football live and just watching highlights later.

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There's no way that I would stick with YTTV without ESPN/ABC/Disney channels.  90% of what I watch is live sports and 90% of that is on the Disney channels.

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9 minutes ago, txhorns said:

There's no way that I would stick with YTTV without ESPN/ABC/Disney channels.  90% of what I watch is live sports and 90% of that is on the Disney channels.

same and i'll probably cancel saturday morning if it isn't solved (it won't be).  no intention to sign up for anything else.

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14 minutes ago, txhorns said:

There's no way that I would stick with YTTV without ESPN/ABC/Disney channels.  90% of what I watch is live sports and 90% of that is on the Disney channels.

It really is true.  And the best thing about TTV is how easy it is to record all of the games and either watch them in full or use the key plays feature. 

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1 hour ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Being that I am the only person in the family who watches the game.  I might continue with antennae and youtubetv and just plan on heading to the local watering hole to watch any games that aren't on ABC.   

Wife would love me out of the house for a few hours on Saturday.  

 

What about all of the other games? I don’t see how folks can live without ESPN and ESPN knows it. I can’t just stop caring about CFB and NBA and any playoff game of consequence that’s on ESPN if not ABC it seems.

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18 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

It really is true.  And the best thing about TTV is how easy it is to record all of the games and either watch them in full or use the key plays feature. 

very true, YTTV is the best and easiest to use interface of all of the cable tv type streaming apps.  I've been using Disney/ESPN to watch our games the past few weeks and its ancient compared to YTTV.

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10 minutes ago, I Plead Da Fif said:

What about all of the other games? I don’t see how folks can live without ESPN and ESPN knows it. I can’t just stop caring about CFB and NBA and any playoff game of consequence that’s on ESPN if not ABC it seems.

Seriously - there's so many good games besides Texas that I like to watch

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Am I crazy or are live sports viewers the plurality but not nearly the majority of live TV viewers? If that's the case then sports forums greatly overstate their importance to carriers' profitability. 

Also I know I'm the crazy one but I might actually resubscribe to YTTV if they dropped everything Disney. But that's not a battle they want to have, this will end soon enough. 

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1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Seriously - there's so many good games besides Texas that I like to watch

Not to mention college men’s and women’s basketball, college baseball and softball, etc, that’s available for our games a lot of the times on SECN or SECN+ that you don’t get from an ESPN+ Select sub.

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2 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Am I crazy or are live sports viewers the plurality but not nearly the majority of live TV viewers? If that's the case then sports forums greatly overstate their importance to carriers' profitability. 

Also I know I'm the crazy one but I might actually resubscribe to YTTV if they dropped everything Disney. But that's not a battle they want to have, this will end soon enough. 

pretty good show yesterday by Pablo Torre on PTFO with the former head of ESPN.  They discuss this and more and predict it'll be resolved before next Monday night's Cowboys game.

 

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

Let's say Disney stays off YTTV for good. Would anyone here still keep their YTTV without espn, ABC, etc?

No way. I did a poll of the family and realized that live sports are the only thing we ever watched on YTTV. My wife streams all of her shows and the kids don't really watch traditional TV (outside of sports). So I dropped YTTV, got the ESPN package, set up an antenna for everything else, and now I'm saving money each month.

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Well Disney better be careful or else Google is gonna just start/buy up some sports channel and get in the sports broadcasting business themselves.  They have the $$ to do it and are not just gonna sit idly by and let their enterprise go bankrupt. 

 

Also I read least night that ESPN is not even the issue.  Apparently they have come to agreement on that.  The issue is ABC with Disney wanting some big premium for that which seems crazy to me.

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1 hour ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

KSAT (ABC in San Antonio) 12.1 is complete dogshit. Fuck VHF broadcasts. I get every other local channel perfectly, including KSAT’s MeTV bullshit on 12.2 UHF. 
 

Fuck ABC and fuck Disney.

Yeah, I get every other local channel on my antenna except KSAT. I canceled YT and went to Fubo. I don't have to pirate the spurs games anymore as a huge bonuse. I'm not switching back.

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18 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

Well Disney better be careful or else Google is gonna just start/buy up some sports channel and get in the sports broadcasting business themselves.  They have the $$ to do it and are not just gonna sit idly by and let their enterprise go bankrupt. 

 

Also I read least night that ESPN is not even the issue.  Apparently they have come to agreement on that.  The issue is ABC with Disney wanting some big premium for that which seems crazy to me.

Do you even know about DWTS or The Golden Bachelor, c'mon man! LOL!

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Pablo said:

Do you even know about DWTS or The Golden Bachelor, c'mon man! LOL!

So i'll point this out b/c my wife likes General Hospital and DWTS but you can always get the regular Disney+ bundle with Hulu/Disney+ and HBO Max and then watch past shows, just not live.

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Losing ESPN has been a bit of a palate cleanse.  Or losing travel during covid.  Life is fine without 18 hours of football.  I do want to see Texas non revenue sports.  I will find a way to get that.  But I won’t necessarily drop YT just because of no Disney.  I will if they raise the price.

As far as live tv our family wants Texas sports, the big 4 networks, and just two or three other specific channels.  I’ve tried every service that provides that.  Until this month, YT was the best value.  The only other ones that had what we want were Hulu and DTVStream.  Hulu is awful.  Just an abominable experience.  Direct TV Stream is the best but it’s owned by ATT and so therefore is Disney-level evil with regular price hikes.  Not sure how the dust will settle.  It seems like whenever I settle into a set of subscriptions I am happy with it is very quickly exploded somehow.  Getting tired of it.

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I've just decided we'll go watch the game somewhere and F the other games.  If I want to see them, I just go somewhere else.  I really don't want to get Fubo because it just feels like its playing into Disney's hands.

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2 minutes ago, texasdago said:

I've just decided we'll go watch the game somewhere and F the other games.  If I want to see them, I just go somewhere else.  I really don't want to get Fubo because it just feels like its playing into Disney's hands.

Celis?

 

Posted
5 minutes ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Is the KSAT antennae way out in Pipe Creek?

Captain Gus used to talk about Pipe Creek.

It's allegedly in fucking Elmendorf. The Captain Gus show was shot somewhere downtown. At least, when I was five years old and my folks dragged me down to be on it, I'm pretty sure it was somewhere downtown.

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We use Disney+ some, Hulu a fair amount, but the only thing YTTV is for is CFB, particularly Texas. I’ll drop it and go with Sling day passes. I don’t like not having the ability to dvr it, but I’ll live.

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17 minutes ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:

It's allegedly in fucking Elmendorf. The Captain Gus show was shot somewhere downtown. At least, when I was five years old and my folks dragged me down to be on it, I'm pretty sure it was somewhere downtown.

Wow.  Cool!  My only brush with San Antonio show biz was a couple of times on Who Knows the Answer on the PBS affiliate.  

Posted
3 hours ago, Victorious1 said:

I wonder if Disney's "fair market rate" offer to YTTV/Google would have made up the $403M?  If so, LMAO at YTTV for tanking Disney's stock.

That must be Q3 unless they have a different fiscal year end. And those numbers don’t reflect their shenanigans in November. 

1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

Well Disney better be careful or else Google is gonna just start/buy up some sports channel and get in the sports broadcasting business themselves.  They have the $$ to do it and are not just gonna sit idly by and let their enterprise go bankrupt. 

 

Also I read least night that ESPN is not even the issue.  Apparently they have come to agreement on that.  The issue is ABC with Disney wanting some big premium for that which seems crazy to me.

I had the same thought about Google. If ESPN isn’t the issue then they need to keep pencil dicked nerds like Mike fucking Greenberg off of tone deaf video announcements. They just need to shut the fuck up. 

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If Disney was doing this on purpose to drive people to Hulu would that be against antitrust laws? Just curious. I went with Hulu Live a few years ago because it bundles with ESPN+ where I can watch OSU baseball and softball. If people are mad at Disney does it really matter if you watch ESPN through a different service? It's still supporting Disney. The only thing I don't like about Hulu is that from the sports tab it shows all the team logos but doesn't identify the sport so I end up opening the ESPN app on my phone to see which teams are playing the sport I'm looking for, otherwise I'll end up clicking through lacrosse and other weird shit.

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