I had to make some drastic changes in my expenses last year, and one of those was the TV package. I killed all TV, signed up for adequate speed Internet (cable at $10/mo for 6 months, whereupon I cancelled with them and went with DSL, who are the preferred provider here, but also at $10/mo for 6 months) and next January will start paying about $C 40 ($ 30.25) a month for that. Our DSL is Fibre-To-The-Premises so 15Mbps down 5Mbps up, and unlike cable, the speed never wavers.
I bought a ROKU streaming stick, and have Netflix HD/2 screens plus I subscribe via the ROKU to a short group of conventional TV channels (History, NFL Network, and the major Canadian networks). Netflix just raised the price $1 here in Canada, so I'm now paying $C 9.95 to them plus $C 2.09 for the added ROKU package, so a total of $C 12.04 ($US 9.10) for that.
So, $C 22 a month now, soon to be $C 52 a month in January.
It's not exactly legal, but you can get almost any sporting event online if you are careful (lots of dangerous sites to avoid).
Alternately, Via the ROKU, you can get NFL Sunday Ticket for a few hundred dollars, or NHL Network, or Major League Baseball, and all those packages are every game every market, so much better than anything via a TV package, unless you add them to your TV package, of course.
Although the packages are not chump change, on the other hand they amount to a fraction of a mundane TV subscription over a year.
There's a lot of [censored] via the ROKU channels, but if you are not married to prime time TV, it's decent.
I bought a ROKU streaming stick, and have Netflix HD/2 screens plus I subscribe via the ROKU to a short group of conventional TV channels (History, NFL Network, and the major Canadian networks). Netflix just raised the price $1 here in Canada, so I'm now paying $C 9.95 to them plus $C 2.09 for the added ROKU package, so a total of $C 12.04 ($US 9.10) for that.
So, $C 22 a month now, soon to be $C 52 a month in January.
It's not exactly legal, but you can get almost any sporting event online if you are careful (lots of dangerous sites to avoid).
Alternately, Via the ROKU, you can get NFL Sunday Ticket for a few hundred dollars, or NHL Network, or Major League Baseball, and all those packages are every game every market, so much better than anything via a TV package, unless you add them to your TV package, of course.
Although the packages are not chump change, on the other hand they amount to a fraction of a mundane TV subscription over a year.
There's a lot of [censored] via the ROKU channels, but if you are not married to prime time TV, it's decent.