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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI want to UnFox my Cable
https://unfoxmycablebox.comsays that there are now "Fox Free" cable services.
But they give no clue as to who. Does anyone know?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)There are 3 ways to go non-Fox.
1. See if your current cable provider offers a Fox-free package.
(Who is your current provider?)
2. Find another cable provider in your area that offers a fox-free package.
(There's probably only one cable provider in your area though, the one you have)
3. Get Internet-only via your current cable company and subscribe to an internet "cable" package that doesn't include Fox.
(Like Philo: https://www.philo.com/login/subscribe )
PortTack
(32,778 posts)Cable providers by their customers to have a menu choice where you are able to chose which networks you want to view or not. It would have to be a huge push on the part of the consumer.
I sure wish..would do it in a heartbeat!
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)It particularly galls me that the carriage fee for that outfit is the highest of any non-premium channel.
Geez, I locked the channel (plus Newsmax) with a parental PIN. I just hit 6 numbers at random, without looking. I don't even know how to unlock it. But, we're still paying for it.
But, on the bright side NOBODY is ever coming into our house & putting Faux on our TVs.
TheBlackAdder
(28,208 posts)iemanja
(53,035 posts)RT and OAN. Traitors.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)And then it let's you put them in the order you want. I've got msnbc and pbs up top, followed by the big three and sports. No cartoons, foxnews (but I repeat myself), or golf channel.
pidge
(274 posts)Shermann
(7,423 posts)...I can stop watching Fox anytime I want to!
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)The only solution is to dump Cable. It would be fine with me to go all streaming, but the wife insists.
Wounded Bear
(58,666 posts)badhair77
(4,218 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)hunter
(38,317 posts)That was pretty painless for me and my wife since we don't watch television news or sports.
I don't think any of the cable news networks are worthy of my dollars or my audience, not even MSNBC, which seems to be popular here on DU.
My wife and I are currently paying about $60 a month for unlimited internet, which we'd have anyways, and $8.99 a month for Netflix. We can also 'cast all sorts of free content to our television from YouTube and other sources. Sometimes we'll try "trial" offers of streaming services such as Disney, but Netflix is the one that persists. One of our children, who is a great fan of small and medium budget movie making, set us up with Netflix years ago.
There are multiple cable-like streaming services that don't include especially obnoxious propaganda channels like Fox News.
https://philo.com , for example, is $25 a month.
Smart televisions offer free content, but we don't have a smart television and I'm not sure I'd want one. I'll be sad when our stupid television dies.
Our children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to traditional cable/satellite/broadcast television. To them that's old people stuff.