Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Intensify

Re:Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Int... by Pxtl on Friday October 04, 2019 @11:40AM (#21158708)

And none of those $10/m services provide local news coverage, so give over to social media to find out what's going on in your community. Or pile on another subscription for your local newspaper.

And that's not even getting into sports.

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Re:Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Int... by dwild on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:36PM (#21161669)

> And none of those $10/m services provide local news coverage,

Your local news coverage is probably already streamed on the web for free already but if it's not, they definitely stream it over the air.

All you need is to buy a 15$ antenna and you should be able to receive local news in HD to your TV.

I bought one specifically for that. I see this as just as important as having a battery radio for emergencies. We never know whether the internet will be up, but the antenna will certainly mostly always works as long as I can power my TV (and I'm equip for it).

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Re:Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Int... by ThatPlayer on Friday October 04, 2019 @04:33PM (#21161654)

Free OTA TV channels still exist. I get local sports and local news on those channels fine and they even come in 1080i now. Most TV still have digital tuners, so you just need an antenna. I use a HDHomeRun tuner hooked up to my network so I can watch and DVR it myself

Also YouTube TV has local channels and sports I believe. But that's 50$/mo

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Re:Disney Bans Netflix Ads as Streaming’s Marketing Wars Int... by pnw_hazor on Friday October 04, 2019 @06:23PM (#21162419)

We use basic cable for that -- it is thrown in for free with our the internet package. Otherwise, it seems like most local news have free roku channels.

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