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Hulu Live Price Hike: Should You Cancel? | Hulu + Live TV Alternatives
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Nov 17, 2020
Hulu + Live TV is raising the price of its live TV streaming plan from $54.99 to $64.99 per month. The $10 increase goes into effect starting on December 18, 2020. In this video, I take a look at other cord-cutting options to save money. Learn more ways to save at MichaelSaves.com! RELATED VIDEOS: I Was Wrong About Hulu Live TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2d7MsOny0 TVision Review and Walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6MwAkvBXI The #1 Mistake People Make After Canceling Cable TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmdDqDORP8&t DID YOU LIKE THIS VIDEO? THANKS FOR WATCHING AND PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY CHANNEL! FOLLOW MICHAEL SAVES: Website: https://michaelsaves.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Saveonalmosteverything/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michael__saves/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelsaves Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/a36c20b3255d/michaelsaves
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hey it is michael welcome and today i
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can officially say i
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no longer have a favorite live tv
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streaming service
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my day wasn't going so hot to begin with
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the dog spent the day at the vet
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and then i looked down at my phone
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checked my email and saw
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this here it is another streaming tv
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price hike hulu live tv
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increasing its monthly rate from 54.99 a
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month
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to 64.99 a month starting in december
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2020 december 18th as a matter of fact
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that's a 10 a month price hike
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disappointing
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sure but surprising no way let's take a
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look back to
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almost exactly one year ago so i'm
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recording this video on november 16
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2020 but on november 15 2019
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that is when hulu live tv announced a
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price hike
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from 44.99 a month to 54.99 a month
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and that price hike went into effect on
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december 18
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2019. this new one is going into effect
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december 18 2020. now with this 10
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price increase hulu with live tv is
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going to cost 64.99 per month
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the same as youtube tv and that's also
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the same as
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fubotv's most popular bundle the family
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bundle
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and just to be clear this is the hulu
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live plan not the on-demand version that
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is a whole lot cheaper and starts at
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5.99 a month
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as far as i know that's gonna stay at
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its current pricing at least
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for now so i'll be honest with you when
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hulu live tv first launched in 2017
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it was my favorite live tv streaming
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service the price then
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40 a month and if you'll recall youtube
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tv
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actually started at 35 a month now i
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don't want to pick on hulu live tv alone
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because
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all the streaming services have been
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raising their prices over the past few
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years
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but with hulu live tv alone it was forty
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dollars in 2017
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now at the end of 2020 we're talking 65
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that is a 25 a month increase so as
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customers we've got two options stay or
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go and i want to talk a little bit about
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some of the things that you may want to
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consider before you make
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that choice first let's talk if you're
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leaning towards staying with hulu live
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with that 65 a month price you know hulu
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live is now the number one streaming
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service it has more than 4 million
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subscribers
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so i imagine that there will be a whole
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lot of people who decide to
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stick it out with them now you have to
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decide is the 10
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increase worth it my suggestion is just
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this if you're gonna stay
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try to look at your other streaming
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subscriptions maybe you have
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something like a netflix that you don't
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need to have year round
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you can always stop and start your
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netflix subscription to make up for the
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10
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increase in the hulu live tv i talk
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about this in more detail in my video
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about the number one mistake that people
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make after canceling cable tv
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so i'll link to that in the description
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below if you're thinking about sticking
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with hulu live
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just look at the other streaming costs
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that you have and try to see if you can
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save a few dollars here and there next
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if you're thinking about moving on from
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hulu live i've got another option for
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you and it is actually the current
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streaming setup that i have myself
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i switch out streaming services all the
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time because i review them for a living
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what i'm currently doing is this i've
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got sling blue which for thirty dollars
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a month
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includes live sports cable news and some
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entertainment networks it is a much
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skinnier bundle than hulu live or
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youtube tv
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but if it has your channels that is a
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lot of savings right there
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but one of the reasons why sling is able
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to keep its packages a little bit lower
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than
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hulu live and youtube tv is because it
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doesn't
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include all of your local channels so
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what is the solution
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first i have an antenna that hooks up to
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the back of my tv
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but it doesn't get all of my local
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stations one of them is missing
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so for that i have low cast it is
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available in a number of cities and lets
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you stream your local channels
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and it is free but they ask for a
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donation so i give the donation to stop
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the ads that will pop
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up and that is five dollars and fifty
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cents a month
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so my tally here is thirty five dollars
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and fifty cents
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so far and as i mentioned hulu live
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really has been my favorite over the
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years
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so starting a few months ago i
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downgraded to just hulu on demand
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and that way i'm allowed to binge watch
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all my favorite shows right now i am
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watching superstore from the season
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one they've just debuted i think season
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six live on air
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so i'm able to catch up on that show and
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many others with the hulu
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on demand service that is 5.99 a month
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so my total is just over forty dollars a
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month and it gives me plenty of
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tv live and on demand and i forgot to
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mention free streaming services there's
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a few that i really like
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pluto the roku channel and new peacock
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it has some pretty good shows on there
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they've got some work to do to really
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expand it out but that has a free tier
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and the others are completely free roku
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channel and pluto so if you're looking
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to reduce your streaming bill
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if you think this price hike from hulu
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live is not acceptable obviously
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youtube tv and fubo those are not going
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to be really great alternatives
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sling tv is really the best one and i
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can't say what's going to happen with
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slings prices
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well if it's just like the rest we can
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expect a price hike sometime soon
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but again because of the lack of local
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channels and the way that the bundles
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are structured
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i think that it's always going to be
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priced a little bit lower than the rest
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so you can always count on a little bit
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of savings there and even if you have
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that
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antenna which is free or low cast you
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can still be saving money compared to
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hulu live tv
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and i guess i should mention the
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newcomer on the block that is t-mobile's
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t-vision
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it launched in november 2020 but only
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for t-mobile customers
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it's going to expand to everyone else in
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2021 but who knows what the pricing will
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be
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at that time i did a walk-through of
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t-vision i got to try it out before it
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launched
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i'll link to that video in the
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description below you're gonna want to
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check that out because t-vision does not
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have a free trial like most of the
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services so you can check out my trial
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to see if it's something that you may
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want to look at more i got to say these
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pricex are really wearing on cord
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cutters i hear from you guys
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every day and i feel the pain as well
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because everyone tells me the same thing
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i only watch five channels why do i have
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to pay for 50
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60 70 or more and i've got to say all
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the blame doesn't go to the streaming
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providers or even the cable or satellite
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providers
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the content providers have a role in
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this too because they're the ones who
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are saying if you carry this channel
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you need to carry all these other ones
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too it's all in the contracts between
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the content providers
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and the streaming providers or the cable
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and satellite operators
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my hope is that one day consumers will
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get what they want the ability to pick
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and choose the channels that they want
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to pay for but in the meantime
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the best we can do is shop around and
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back to my first tip if you're deciding
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to stay with hulu live tv
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start and stop your other subscriptions
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or your hulu live tv subscription if you
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can
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because every little bit will help to
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reduce your overall
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streaming bill so you got to tell me
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what you're thinking will you stay with
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hulu live tv
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or will you go let me know in the
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comments below
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on this channel thanks so much for
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watching and i'll see you next time