Hello Tina and everyone,
We’re big fans of SiriusXM and have it on all of our devices.
We have not experienced pushiness from them at all. When we’ve had to call them
we were treated very well. We’ll use them to replace Music Choice a music
service available from Spectrom but will go away when we shift to a cheaper
plan or cut the cord entirely. I’ll be putting on Symphony Hall one of their
classical channels when I get down stairs in a while. Hope this helps.
Peter Donahue
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Lifetime subscriptions were offered to customers of XM Radio when Sirius and XM
merged as certain aspects changed. I doubt they offer those subscriptions
anymore.
I rarely speak to their Customer Service and just go to their websiteto make
adjustments if needed.
I do get lots of offers tobuy a new radio but all of them requires
thatanothersubscription isobtained so I merely pressthe DELETE key and move on.
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We tried serious briefly. They were nice until we needed to make changes or
just cancel the subscription for a while. Then they got really really pushy.
Otherwise that might have worked. We find that we could get a local channel
best with the antenna in NBC, which I really like, didn't work out too well
although they are making changes to their equipment and and things next month
which should boost the signal. But that still leaves ABC and CBS also so like
you're finding, got $65 it might be worth to just keep the cable. We don't
know. We haven't decided anything either way. There is something called LoCast,
which is supposed to offer your local channels, but last time we used it it was
not very accessible at all unless you have some vision and we don't really so
that didn't work for us. How do you get a lifetime subscription to Sirius and
are they still offering that? And how is support for you when you call in to
deal with them for anyone who has serious for that matter maybe we just got
somebody who felt like they needed to be pushy for a sale? Or is that typical
of serious support
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021, 8:20 PM Amanda Lee <amandainparadise777@xxxxxxxxx
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I found with an attached antenna, that one can find PBS channels and others.
Ironically though I have more issues with CBS and ABC but NBC and FOX are
available. I prefer CBS and ABC though so if I can stream those somehow, I
would be happy. There are so many sources for old TV shows and movies that
are free that there's not enough time in my daily life! To be able to watch all
of that media.
There is Hulu but I think $65 per month is getting close to if I were merely
downsize my current cable subscription.
Since Amazon purchased MGM, it will be interesting what emerges from this
acquisition. So if they would just offer Prime TV plus MGM plus my local TV
channels, I'd be very satisfied.
I have a Lifetime subscription with Sirius/XM and so I can get CNN, certain
financial channels and lots of sports and I really don't need the video
although Sirius/XM does offer some streaming video.
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Hello Tina and everyone,
You Tube TV, Sling TV, and Fubo TV include local channels though you may not be
able to receibe PBS.
Another issue you may encounter with these services is that network
channels such as ABC, NBC, and CBS may not stream programs in your local
market. We discovered this Monday evening when we wanted to watch the Texas
Caveleer's River Parade an event that is held during San Antonio's city-wide
celebration called Fiesta. Since we still have our Spectrom service we were
able to pull up our ABC Affiliate and enjoyed the river parade. Spectrom has an
Internet only service you can stream via the Internet eliminating the need for
a set-top box and an antenna. This plan includes your local channels, a few
selected cable channels, and 10 additional cable channels you can add to your
subscription. If we went this route we would pay about $100.00 per month down
from $150.00 using the set-top box and our current Spectrom subscription.
Everyone's situation is different. Might I suggest putting a pencile to it to
decide if you want to completely eliminate your cable subscription or if you
want to keep a basic subscription to avail yourself of in-market channel
programming.
Peter Donahue
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Subject: [blindcordcutters] local and cable in an apartment/condo
Hi. We may be in the minority here, but we're in an apartment with someone
above us. so an antenna isn't an option and the indoor ones we've tried didn't
work well. In addition to cable cutting we 're interested in finding
accessible ways to get local channels too if anyone knows of such a thing.
We're using devices running android 11, fire tablets and a fire stick, and
windows 10 laptop using jaws, system access and NVDA.
Tina
