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(1,872 posts)Watch things the next day on youtube where possible. (Of course, even those are now slipping in ads...like Amazon Prime used to be commercial free...with yourincreasing price subscription! Too bad suckers)
Put up an outside antenna and get the major channels "free."
Look into VPNs and independent subscriptions. Of course, that's more often too much trouble for people to do. And heaven forbid, they might have to LEARN HOW to do something other than click a switch! Kid's today aren't the only stupid ones!
There really are other programs people haven't been brainwashed into watching online (internet) that are good.
America has turned into "soap opera" viewers where the big corporations are telling you what to watch for more and more profit for them. $200 plus per month to watch one thing at a time when average viewing time is 3 to 4 hours per day (except for the "babysitting" fact to ignore your kids so YOU can do other things. Do the math because the corporations don't want you to learn how much of YOUR money is going to them and their sponsors.
Soap operas started this in the 50s. Sports takes it to another level today. 3 hours of banter and commercials for a football game that takes ONE HOUR to play. That's beyond dumb!
But Americans are "Entitled" and have been conditioned and literally brainwashed that they HAVE to watch something they've been told they must watch.
By the way, Cable TV used to be commercial free back in the Stone Age until the government was wedded with big business.
You're paying for a subscription AND still paying extra by watching increasing commercials and commercial time! DUH!)
You're paying for "57 Channels" (and there's nothing on...Thanks, Bruce) and complaining...but still paying and watching...less. Only in America.
But of course, it's your right to pay for what you want, not get your money's worth and think it's ok to simply complain and it'll get better anyway.
A long time ago from a land far away, a man told me that Americans are the stupidest people on earth. I didn't believe him...then.