With the sudden (and highly annoying to me) move to “streaming” it’s odd to me that Tamara Tattles sources exclusively revealed that a certain free streaming site has refused to release the numbers of people signing up for the site despite the site being free. It already looks like a dud despite a couple of shows that have not gone up yet. One is done filming and the other is probably never going to happen. And if they do choose to go ahead with it, the streaming channel is just never going to work. They do not understand they have an older audience. Well, they do but they seem to think streaming is the way to get younger viewers.
If they are right and I am wrong, shouldn’t we have have some subscription numbers by now? I’m just saying. There is no boasting about the number of subscribers to the free site. People tried to tell the suits that subscription would never work. But, desperate times I guess.
Peacock not proud of the numbers?
I’m trying it now because I don’t have cable anymore and Peacock is only $4.99/ month. This is my first month. I like it so far because I’m catching up on Chicago PD, This Us and Law&Order SVU.
It’s the first streaming service I’m paying for so I’ll see if it’s worth keeping after I’m caught up with the 3 shows I have always liked.
I actually love Peacock. I let my cable go also and like you tried this streaming service because of the price, but now I have it I love it. Dateline 24/7, forensic files, SVU, Chicago p.d., and then all my guilty pleasure Bravo shows are there too.
Do you get Bravo and IDiscovery? Oxygen?
I love Peacock so far. Although included with my Comcast subscription, we upgraded to commercial free. Before we knew it was included, we subscribed for The Office access. I thought I read the subscription service exceeded expectations but maybe I read wrong. Also like 40 seasons of SNL although music performance. segment cut.
I signed up for free Peacock to watch Escape to the Chateaux. I’m loving it.
We’re moving, so I may ditch FIOS at $200 per month and go with YouTube premium. I’ll be able to get sports and Bravo.
I have Youtube premium and I really like it. It had all the channels I liked and made getting rid of cable easy.
I have you tube premium too and I love it. My sister and I also share a few channels (netflix, rakuten viki, hbo max , starz, showtime amazonprime and paramount) and we still wind up saving over cable! The other nice thing with you tube tv is you got an unlimited size “dvr” (built in) that saves your recordings for a year. I love that I can tape 8 things at the same time and even though. I never get around to watching most of it, it’s nice knowing its there If I want it
How much do you pay for internet ? We looked at Youtube, but once we add the cost of internet, we did not save anything.
Our internet is $60 and you tube tv is $65 so all together we pay $125 which imo is a steal since we have 5 Tv’s. Yes, we are obsessed LOL
If you have a relative nearby you can also share the cost of youtubetv. My sister lives about 20 minutes away and we both use the same login.
She also pays for the add on channels since we cover the cost of youtubetv so If you have a family member or friend that you trust it’s a great way to save money.
I have no interest in streaming. The young people will beg for it when those horrible/not role models Kardashians comes on. What streaming service signed them? How much were they paid? Gazillions? The Housewife All Stars (dud) and Miami will never happen?
I read that that Kardashian’s will be doing something for Hulu.
Housewives Twitter seems to be trending younger lately, unless they are Bravo bots which wouldn’t surprise me. They don’t seem to be watching live, though. Just tweeting about which housewives are queens and what not.
It’s hard to imagine that young people are caring enough about these old (mostly), washed up hw’s to be going on about them being Queens, etc.
I know, but they are. It’s all I see now..I think they started watching during quarantine and now have full blown Stan accounts if you look at the HW hashtags on Twitter.
I do not understand this streaming thing. If it free why is it $4.99? I think I have to sit at my computer to watch. Some of the shows advertised on tv look interesting but I am not understanding something I guess. What’s the point? Can someone (for real) explain it to me?
Peacock has many free shows and movies. To watch every episode of some of the shows, there is a Peacock Premium service that charges a fee.
Thank you Rmicu! I keep seeing people argue online about if it’s free or not and I’ve been too lazy to look into it. You have saved me from having to actually look into it, and I owe you a future thing you don’t feel like looking up 😉
You’re welcome. I’m going to hold you to that offer.
That is what happened to me. Signed up for free to watch some new show and after 3 episodes it wanted me to pay. Nope.
My understanding is with my Spectrum service there is a minimum charge $4.99 here for Peacock. My sister in another state has Comcast and it’s free.
Didn’t streaming services start when people started to revolt against the cost of cable companies? So as soon as technology started to get “fancier”- offering ways to get tv channels through internet, people started figuring it out. Now there’s Roku, Firestick, and all sorts of other things, combined with streaming subscriptions that make tv much more affordable. Personally, I also find those options annoying- we have traditional cable along with a couple streaming channels because I like tv so much, I’m willing to budget (and not put money into some other things) to pay for cable, but everybody has different priorities. I do like Netflix, etc. for the excellent shows like The Crown, Brigerton, etc. And Amazon Prime Video comes with the Amazon subscription anyway.
I feel like younger people are just less into watching tv the “traditional” way, and more into watching shows on computers and phones, etc. which are only streaming and that’s how a lot of this started.
Another thing I’ve noticed, since before the pandemic, when we go on vacation, if you stay in places that are not hotels, like rented homes or condos, they all have things like Roku, with streaming as the only option. When it first happened, we could not figure out how to get anything on tv (cuz you have to know how to do it)- I think I somehow landed on one channel- like an oldies channel. Watched reruns of Dennis the Menace the whole week- it was awful. Peacock is of no interest to me because I go to my couple streaming channels for the better quality shows, and cable channels for OWN, Bravo, TBS, etc.
I’m a little confused about why someone wouldn’t want to try streaming? We ditched cable years ago because I felt hundreds of dollars a month is absurd. So now for maybe $24 a month total we have Amazon Prime, Netflix, and all of the free ones. The shows and movies are the best! And you don’t have to mess with recording anything on a dvr or commercials.
TT, why don’t you want to stream shows? It’s easier and cheaper! Seriously I promise it’s easy! It’s just pushing a button on your remote, or watch on your laptop. Can lawn boy or someone set it up for you to do a trial run? Then just get rid of it if you don’t like it.
You guys! Just try it! Lol all the cool kids are doing it, I promise! 😎😊
I couldn’t agree more. I pay so much less and get such better quality shows in addition to live TV. You can see it on your television with a Roku or Firestick so streaming is not just for laptops or phone.
It’s the “channel” streaming that is being referred to. Something like Amazon Prime and Netflix have a lot of choices. But there are a lot of “Channels” that are charging anywhere from $4.99 to $6.99 a month to stream CBS or Peacock or Discovery Plus or Disney and so on. The issue is if you add all the channel streaming you won’t have any money left over for the electric bill. A lot of the regular TV channels are starting to move content to streaming service that you have to pay for over and above your cable bill. If you have one that is.
We would love to stream….but we are in the woods with very little internet. What we have is satellite or run off our phones. We technically could stream, but the cost of internet to do so would be double what we pay for satellite. I have a love/hate relationship with being out in the boonies.
I totally understand. We RV full time and have been in locations with little to nothing, we nomad now for internet. If we didn’t have a satellite we’d often be up a creek because these steaming platforms use the worst players! I’m still dumbfounded that I can watch anything pretty much on Netflix and HBO max will lock up. I just have Amazon and Netflix, anything else, oh well not meant to be!
I hope Discovery Plus bombs. I am so sick of seeing their commercials on my cable channels. No I am not going to pay for cable and then pay Disney, Discovery, CBS, Peacock and all those other streaming services additional monies to see their content. In fact when my cable contract is over, I am done with them and I will not load up on all this premium content that is constantly running commercials trying to entice me over. Sorry, Joanna Gaines I love but I don’t want to pay to watch her on a streaming service.
Seconded. I’m particularly pissed off that Discovery+ took over 2/3 of the way through 90 Day Fiance to try to force us to sign up for it. No way. Really nasty and manipulative.
I couldn’t agree more. My friends & I are all so annoyed by it that we almost stopped watching 90 day all together when they put the reunion show on Discovery+ to sort of force people. At least they didn’t do that with this past season & I see they brought pillow talk back to TLC
I agree on manipulative Discovery+. Not gonna work on me, will boycott Discovery+.
You’re right about all the regular tv channels going to streaming. They’re probably doing it in part because so many people are eliminating cable and going to cheap options like Roku, etc., where you get your tv through the internet (not cable). So they see the handwriting on the wall- people are cutting cable and if the tv networks want to stay around, they have to have streaming channels. I just hope cable remains an option- I’ve used Roku and things like that when staying in a rented house on vacation, and it’s just clunkier and the quality is not as good. I can see cable being eliminated at some point though, hate to say- because being older, I like the convenience.
I love you, MsCarly! That’s exactly the way I feel about it.
OK, I’m pretty sure I figured this out. Even though Comcast claimed late last month that Peacock has attracted 42 million sign-ups so far, Comcast won’t provide more specific data on how many of those 42 million signed up for free to catch a NBC show they missed when it aired live versus how many are subscribing to Peacock’s premium tiers.
By comparison HBOMax “only” has 41 million subscribers, but we already know that all those subscribers are either paying their cable companies for traditional HBO (as I do), paying for the HBOMax add-on on Amazon Prime or Hulu, or paying Time Warner directly for HBOMax. Or in other words, we already know everyone who’s on HBOMax is paying for it, whereas it’s unclear as fuck who’s paying for Peacock Premium and who just signed up for free to catch up on “This Is Us”.
Peacock premium is free with Comcast here, as is Netflix (it’s probably certain packages so I won’t say it’s everyone!). That’s surely where 41.9M viewers come from. I know I wouldn’t pay a hot cent for it, nor will I buy discovery plus.
I get all the streaming versions of premium channels I have with Comcast. I don’t pay extra for hbomax.
Unlimited sprint customers got Disney free.
My kid gets prime video as a perk of her Amazon membership.
My point is that people aren’t paying for this cr*p.
Eventually someone will leak housewives all stars or bravo themselves will be desperate for content and it will air on the regular channel.
I’m not interested enough to pay to view.
Yup- I have all that too with Comcast/Xfinity. Peacock premium, Netflix, all included. Everyone has different tastes and priorities (and differences in what they’re willing to pay for). For me, I love all that’s included, the fact that the dvr is a thing of the past, the ease and convenience. But I totally respect those that need or want to go in the streaming/Roku, Firestick or whatever direction too. I celebrate choice, in all things!
Not all HBOMax users are paying. When I got DirectTV last year I got 3 months of HBOMax with my account. Also when I upgraded my AT&T phone I got HBOMax free for one year. So there are a whole lot of AT&T users out there that are not paying for HBOMax, at least temporarily.
I’m thinking this is about Discovery+. I ended my membership when they allowed what I considered dangerously homophobic statements to be made by Britney regarding Hazan, on 90 Day Bares All, and I couldn’t abide by it. It’s also the reason I’m winding down on the 90 Day franchise. It’s been over minded to provide content for the streaming service, and it’s just too much.
I was thinking about this yesterday. How do these companies expect people to pay for cable & then pay the 10 new streaming services a fee. I rather they keep it centralized on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon than pay discovery, peacock, zeus, etc.
I am in the “senior” demographic and have streamed for a number of years – starting when I switched from Netflix red mailers to Netflix and then Amazon since it came with Amazon Prime.
I subscribed to Hulu without commercials and have seen enough stuff so that it is worth the fee – at least to me. Between some of their original programming and catching up on classic stuff like Mary Tyler Moore show and ER and NYPD Blue as well as odd episodes of stuff I had forgotten, it’s worth it. I subscribed to Apple Plus because I wanted to see the Morning Show and they also have some other great content – and when the stuff delayed because of the pandemic hits the tube, there should be a plethora.
I have a Smart TV but I stream through my Apple TV which makes it so much easier to change and find programming. I can use Siri to find stuff if need be.
I do draw the line at paying for Peacock and Discovery+ because there really isn’t anything compelling enough for me to pay. Similarly I don’t subscribe to CBS All Access.
I live in a building where I get a bulk rate for cable – I pay about $35 for almost every cable station plus Showtime and HBO but if I didn’t have that kind of deal, I would cut the cord and just subscribe to Hulu plus the other streamers. Hulu has almost all the broadcast and cable shows the next day. I don’t watch sports at all – ESPN costs your local cable company a LOT of money so I resent having to pay for all of those cable channels I don’t watch – especially ESPN since it is so expensive and the cost of that is obviously passed on to the end user
I sat down with my sister and we went over what she pays streaming vs what I pay for cable. Once you include the high dollar internet service she needs to run more than one tv without buffering, which I notice a lot of folks here aren’t doing, she pays more than I pay for cable, internet and my cell phone. I do not stream. I think it used to be cheaper. Now it’s questionable. And they are trying to stop people from sharing accounts, just about their only saving grace.
And discovery+ and their stupid commercials can GDIAF.
I hope it isn’t discovery+ i adore it. I love crime shows and that stupid pig show? Im a texan and was like who TF are these people. Love discovery+
Ok, here is my problem so if anyone can help please respond. I have a “smart TV” it’s a Vizio. A while back I got a free Fire Stick from Amazon because I made a large purchase. 2 weeks later it stopped working. So I call Amazon and they tell me that Vizio no longer supports the Fire Stick. (If anyone wants it, I’ll send it to you) They provide basic cable here and I’ve noticed that we’re losing channels lately. Well they all went to Discovery+. I got really mad when they took away the cooking network and the cartoon network!!!!!
Can someone explain to me if you think it’s a good idea to sign up for streaming services or something else? I really appreciate your help.
Paramount+ is awful