WSJ: 'Millennials Unearth an Amazing Hack to Get Free TV"

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"...the antenna. "

No, this isn't The Onion.

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Dear millennials: This story is emblematic of why a significant number of your cohorts are viewed as imbeciles. Your innate (and special, very special) snowflakiness (thank your parents) gives you unique qualities not seen in prior generations. Mix 'boy meets world' with profound hubris, and get stupid. Every time.
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I don't even miss cable. I have a Tivo OTA that lets me DVR local stations. I wouldn't even have an internet-based TV service outside of football season, but my wife wants to get news stations so we have DirecTV NOW (similar to Sling, Playstation Vue, etc). I almost never watch the thing and I don't think I have opened the app since the end of roundball season.
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Same here, Big Dave.


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nolanvt wrote:Same here, Big Dave.


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awesome guy wrote:
nolanvt wrote:Same here, Big Dave.


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How can you not miss TV without hobbies? Do you stare at the You Can Play website all day like Forest Gump, waiting on marching orders? :)
I have an antenna for network TV, which I don't watch much right now, and we have Amazon Prime (canceled Netflix for now). Any TV I watch has been binge watching Justified on FX since I didn't watch it while it aired. May give The Wire a shot next, but between work, due diligence on buying a house, etc, we don't watch much TV. Could change come football season, but I don't miss actual cable TV and paying ESPN $10/mo or however much it is one bit.


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Big Dave, I have this theory that College and Pro football are the only things keeping the cable and dish industries from starting to default on their massive debts that they have to service. They would death if football went solo via online.


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Bay_area_Hokie wrote:Big Dave, I have this theory that College and Pro football are the only things keeping the cable and dish industries from starting to default on their massive debts that they have to service. They would death if football went solo via online.


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Correct and ESPN trying to justify their billions spent with embarrassing over-coverage of the largely unwatchable NBA- Predictable, players don't give effort until May, 12 teams have no shot when the season starts, but ESPN covers it like its the Super Bowl every day. The average person could not care less about NBA free agents, yet it is 24/7 on ESPN. Arenas are half filled until playoff time, and attendance overall is well behind hockey. So yes, its the NFL, Major college football, and the NBA cramfest that is keeping it alive. ESPN covers the rest of the sports spectrum like a high school newspaper would- they don't.
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