After living with the cable for 40+ years, and just recently cutting that cable, I've found that the inconvenience of having 3 or 4 OTHER services whose cost is now nearly equal to my previous cable bill, is not all it's cracked up to be... Beginning to regret that decision...
Pregame: Illinois at Purdue, Saturday, September 30th, 2:30pm CT, Peacock
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Illinicpa14
- Chicago
If there are no changes I’m almost more concerned at what these 2-Deep guys must look like in practice.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
Then pretend it is about 40 years ago and simply listen to the radio broadcast. I am traveling during the game, so that will be by method of staying up-to-date with the game.
We have 18(I think) OL in the program, 12 of those are either true freshman, red shirt freshman or sophs. We are building depth but that depth wont be noticed really until next year at the earliest.
Fighter of the Nightman
- Chicago, IL
FYI for viewing logistics this weekend, Peacock allows up to three people to stream at once using a single username. So, if your father in law has Peacock because he loves The Office, just get his login ... worked for us. 
I ALMOST did what you did, but decided to keep Direct TV to avoid multiple accounts to login too, and pay what I was paying before, or more as I did the math.
Plus, I use Apple TVs, but I did not want to upgrade a couple OLD LCD tvs to smart tvs.
Frankly, even with my old eyes, new 4K tvs are just way too sharp for my liking, give me old 1080i and that's all I need.
We were all ready to cut the cord and called Direct TV to find out where to drop their gear. They coughed up an incredible deal, so we stayed. Navigating a single menu is nice.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
Attending a game in person:
Flight: $300
Hotel: $300
Rental car: $300
Tickets: $100
Total: $1,000
Watching a game on Peacock:
30 days of access: $5.99
What are we doing here? It’s cheaper to watch this game than get a coffee at Starbucks.
It's owned by NBC . . .
Mr. Tibbs
- southeast DuPage
its NBC making full use of their contract which allowed them to put X many of the league games in Peacock - in order for NBC to draw subscribers to it.
its a racket.
dont be surprised if CBS and Fox does the same thing at some point.
I have enough subscriptions as is and refuse to even do the so called freebie deal for 30 days.
Illini2010-11
- Sugar Grove
The problem is that maintaining only a traditional cable package will never provide you any of the games that are exclusive streaming content. There are at least 5 platforms (sure I may have missed a couple) that have exclusive games that are not available on any cable subscription:
1) Peacock - one NCAAF game a week; Premier League games, WWE, etc.
2) Apple TV - Exclusive MLB games; home of MLS (who cares though); Waiting for them to jump on other leagues
3) Prime TV - Exclusive Thursday Night NFL Football Game
4) Paramount+ - Exclusive home of Champions League Futbol and other international futbol leagues-> waiting for them to join on NCAAF
5) ESPN+ - Exclusive home of NHL out-of-market games; NCAAF and NCAAB exclusive games; exclusive UFC matches; and the list goes on
AND
6) YouTube TV is exclusive home of NFL Sunday Ticket (one of only reasons for many people to maintain DirecTV over the years)
Reality is that having only a cable subscription is a thing of the past. I cut the cord 4 years ago and now have 6-7 streaming platforms (a couple free through T-Mobile phone package) as well as Fubo to replace my traditional cable package. Mixed in with cost of upgraded unlimited internet, my cost is roughly the same as when I had internet and cable bundle with Xfinity. The overall content that I receive is much better (more sporting games for me and entertainment content for the wife and kid). While it stinks to have so many different apps to open, I will never regret dumping cable. Almost $200 to get one to two channels that are on their premier package is insane. The streaming market has forced traditional cable to adapt or die (running so many promos to keep customers), and I would not be surprised to see it near extinct in the next decade or two.
lstewart53x3
- Scottsdale, Arizona
If evenly divided, 5-6 per team.
23-24 Hoops Schedule
Let's cleanse the palate with a little basketball talk. The schedule was (finally) released yesterday, and even though we already knew the Big Ten home and away opponents, now we know the order of the games. An order that ends with at Wisconsin, home for Purdue, at Iowa. The first place I always...
I acknowledge your point, you can take all the above out except the tickets and your point still stands (plus gas if you drive down, plus food, etc.).
It's not the overall cost that bothers me though, it is the bracket creep of adding another stream, and another. And paying another month, and another. And to that point, you can pay that $5.99 and still not see the game if that's only a Peacock Basic plan. You need Peacock Premium for the sports, which Infinity dropped this year (used to be free for long-tenured subscribers).
So yet another level of creep, it never ends unless the consumer draws a line, which it sounds like some (I am in this group) are doing here.
Captain 14
- The Last Best Place
My SiriusXM strategy exactly
I'm also unwilling to pay for Starbucks coffee
SiriusXM are cupcakes, with no pushback at all to get to $5/month.
I’ll need to enroll for Purdue. Can you advise specifically what’s required? Must buy Premium?
Someone said Maryland will be Peacock too, but I don’t see it (or game time) on the schedule yet.
One persons suffering to another persons pleasure. Comment unrelated to Mel Tucker btw.
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