re: Venu Sports

If this new service doesn’t have Bally they are missing the mark. There’s a market for sports only streaming but most would want the Braves with it.

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It might lower the price. Can almost guarantee most households will still have 2-3 other streaming platforms on top of the $50+taxes and fees a month.

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Most houses will have 2-3 streaming platforms anyway. If, by streaming platforms you mean Netflix, Britbox, Amazon etc. But housholds will, or should not have FUBO, YouTube, etc as they duplicate almost all of their channels.

Here is my thinking...FUBO costs approx. $70 a month.
I get the following for:
HBOMax-Free with internet
Amazon Prime-$13 a month when paid for a year in advance
Britbox- $7 a month
We don't take Netflix anymore but it can be had for about $23 a month w/4K

If Meansonny is correct you could all the sports on TV (Almost) for another $7 to start with and probably around$30 or so when the introductory settles down.

If I wanted to (but I don't) I could go with all of those services for about $143-$150 a month and then add internet. I was spending about $217 (I think) with DishTV and DirecTV (That did include internet.)

Instead, we go tired of Netflix and dropped it, and i won't need FUBO/YouTube if I take VENU.

So....to put this in focus.
Before VENU I was actually paying:
$80-Internet
Free-HBO Max (included with internet)
$13-Amazon Prime (paid for a year in advance)
BritBox-$7 a month
FUBO-$70 a month for 6 months of the year

That's $170 a month or since i only took FUBO for 6 months it averaged out to $135 a month year round, but did not get UGA basketball, baseball or anything else for 6 of those months

With VENU I can get:
Internet-$80 a month
HBOMax-Free w/internet
Amazon Prime-$13 a month paid in advance for a year
BritBox-$7
VENU-$30 (Approximately)
and drop FUBO but have access to UGA Basketball and Baseball if I want to watch for a total of $130 a month.

So, in reality I save $5 a month but get the same things along with basketball and baseball. Chance are, though, I would drop VENU and take it for only 6 months and my monthly average for a year would be: $115 saving me $100 a month since I stream instead of having DishTV/DirecTV or $20 a month with VENU and dropping FUBO/YouTube.

I'm not sure if this makes sense. And this is taking into account for price increases after VENU settles in and gets established.

Personally? I can't imagine why anybody would not "cut the cord" and get rid of cable or the dishes.

$200 just on tv? Good grief.

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$200 just on tv? Good grief.

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I am guessing that includes internet.

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They will make sure in the long run your bill is the same.

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Mine is not. Like I said, I don't spend anywhere near what I was. Of course i don't get...nor do I want all of the extra TV Channels.

The popular channels run the price up on those cable and streaming services, but they also get charged for stuff like BET, Spanish language channels, A&E, AXSTv, BabyTV, Bloomberg TV....and a ton of other channels. But they take all those lesser channels to be able to claim you are getting 200+ channels, when if could choose you would probably choose 50 or so channels that you MIGHT watch. But they pay for those channels and then pass the cost+ profit on to you. It is what it is.

During off season I pay about $100 a month for TV and have too much to watch. But that's me.

ETA
I should have added that that includes internet.