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TCM Memorial Weekend Movies

Post by JEBar » Fri May 22, 2020 4:42 pm

starting at 11:45AM Eastern Time tomorrow Turner Classic Movies has scheduled a series of war movies .... the first will be the 1941 Sergeant York movie staring Gary Cooper ... it will be followed at 2PM by 1956 D-Day, the Sixth of June .... at 5:30PM 1968 John Wayne's The Green Berets .... folks who are interested will find a bunch of others that might be of interest
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Post by CT_Shooter » Fri May 22, 2020 6:11 pm

I love TCM and watched it regularly for years. A few months ago, for who knows what reason, Comcast bundled it into a sports package that I have no interest in paying for.
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Post by JEBar » Fri May 22, 2020 7:06 pm

CT_Shooter wrote:
Fri May 22, 2020 6:11 pm
Comcast bundled it into a sports package....

SPORTS PACKAGE .. :?: :?: :?: ... now that's more than just a bit odd .. :!:
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Post by CT_Shooter » Fri May 22, 2020 7:31 pm

I couldn't believe it, either. Really pissed me off, too.
Comcast wrote:We look at a variety of factors, including customer viewership and programming costs… Viewership of TCM is low, as over 90% of our customers watch less [sic] than two movies per month. Given this and contractual limitations on offering TCM a la carte, we decided to move TCM to the Sports Entertainment Package, which will help us manage programming costs that are passed on to our customers while continuing to make the channel available to those who want to watch it.

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/ ... lassi.html
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SPORTS PACKAGE .. :?: :?: :?: ... now that's more than just a bit odd .. :!:
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Post by fortyshooter » Fri May 22, 2020 8:46 pm

CT_Shooter wrote:
Fri May 22, 2020 6:11 pm
I love TCM and watched it regularly for years. A few months ago, for who knows what reason, Comcast bundled it into a sports package that I have no interest in paying for.
Same deal here. Several channels that used to be in the basic package are now premiums wrapped with other junk.
When you have a monopoly you do what you please! Paying 185 bucks a month and that doesn't include TCM.
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Post by RanchRoper » Fri May 22, 2020 9:05 pm

We watch TCM and the Cowboy Channel more than anything else. Live rodeo starts tonight again FINALLY from Cave Creek AZ.
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Post by JEBar » Fri May 22, 2020 10:13 pm

RanchRoper wrote:
Fri May 22, 2020 9:05 pm
We watch TCM and the Cowboy Channel more than anything else. Live rodeo starts tonight again FINALLY from Cave Creek AZ.

that's the way it is at our place as well
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Post by brm4450 » Sun May 24, 2020 2:26 pm

We get neither channel, @$&##%
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Post by Cowboy Gun Fan » Sun May 24, 2020 2:45 pm

Sergeant York, my all time favorite movie. Saw it again just a week or two ago. One of the channels on my Antenna TV played it.

Had to watch it even though we have it on tape. We still have a VCR that works, lol.
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Post by Cowboy Gun Fan » Sun May 24, 2020 2:53 pm

fortyshooter wrote:
Fri May 22, 2020 8:46 pm
Same deal here. Several channels that used to be in the basic package are now premiums wrapped with other junk.
When you have a monopoly you do what you please! Paying 185 bucks a month and that doesn't include TCM.
Paid TV seems to be getting worse and worse, while Antenna TV (free) seems to be getting better and better. We're getting about 26 Channels now with an Indoor. If I put in an Outdoor, we could probably get about 35. Not perfect though as it doesn't like wind. A windy day means poor reception. For free, we deal with it, although some channels have better reception than others.

We also have Roku (100's of shows also free) and Amazon Prime (free with an Amazon Acct). We would have the Amazon Acct anyway, deals are just too good. TV is just an extra bonus. Reception no problem with either of those.
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