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Your Best Streaming TV Options at Every Price Point!
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Feb 19, 2025
Streaming TV costs are rising, but can you get everything you want and save a little money every month? In this updated guide for 2025, I share your best streaming options at multiple price points. 🚨 Get the latest deals and free trials: https://michaelsavesdeals.com/ 📺 Compare live TV services: https://michaelsaves.com/streaming/best-live-tv-streaming/ 💻 Find a better internet plan: https://michaelsaves.com/internet-plan-comparison-tool/ CHAPTERS: 0:00 Streaming TV Price Ranges 0:31 $100+ Per Month 2:14 $50 to $100 Per Month 4:34 Less Than $50 Per Month 5:56 $0 Per Month 6:48 Michael's Key Takeaways 7:45 Savings Beyond Streaming TV Start your regular Amazon shopping with my link to support the channel: https://www.amazon.com/shop/michaelsaves NOTE: This description box includes an affiliate link. If you use my link, I may receive a small commission. It helps offset the 80% decline in YouTube revenue my channel has experienced since November 2022. Need a personal recommendation for streaming TV, phone or internet service? Email [email protected]!
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we're all feeling it the rising cost of
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streaming TV but can you get everything
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you want and still save money today I'll
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help answer that question let's get
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started let's start with this I recently
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put up a poll on YouTube asked how much
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you plan to spend on streaming TV every
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month and the most popular response
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between 50 and $100 a month in this
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video I'm going to break down your best
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streaming options at all of these price
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points the longer you watch the more
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potential for savings back when I
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started on this beat 10 years ago people
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were cancelling their cable TV bills
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because they got to over $100 a month
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but now we've got streaming plans at
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right around $100 a month if you're
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someone paying $100 a month or more for
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streaming TV you are most likely a big
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bundle person and you've probably got a
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cable 2.0 service YouTube TV and the
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rest full bundles that include Sports
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and news channels as well as your locals
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those now start at around $85 a month
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and plans with regional Sports networks
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they're even more expensive so for
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example someone could have YouTube TV's
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base plan and adree Netflix they would
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pay more than $100 a month $100 a month
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for only two streaming services so the
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question is why would anyone stay with
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an expensive full cable 2. .0 bundle and
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usually that answer has to do with
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sports or locals and sometimes because
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people just value having most of their
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content available from a single app
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there are some new opportunities for
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people who have full bundles to save a
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little money by downgrading Sports and
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news bundles are getting a lot of
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attention Direct TV streams my sports
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plan that was the first to launch I
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tested it out and I expect a lot of
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changes here over the next 12 months yes
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these bundles are cheaper than full
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bundles but definitely not cheap the
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most affordable cable 2.0 bundles are
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the entertainment ones Pho and friendly
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TV for example but those don't include
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Sports and locals all right I hear you
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most people don't want to spend $100 a
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month or more on streaming TV I'm one of
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them so let's move on now and talk about
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the 50 to $100 a month price range 37%
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of streamers who responded to my post
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said they plan to stay within this range
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now there are some people who can keep
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their full cable 2.0 bundle and stay
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below $100 a month I just shared the
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example of YouTube TV and adree Netflix
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it was over $100 a month but if you got
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Netflix with ads instead you would be
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under $100 a month just barely I think
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we could do better than that one way
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that I've been able to stay within this
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price range and still get all the
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channels that I want is by signing up
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for sling TV for at least a few months
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out of the year after YouTube TV raised
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its price I heard from a lot of people
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who did the same thing I consider sling
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TV a full bundle with some fine print I
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say that because the service has sports
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news and entertainment but locals they
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are limited and that's why it is best
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for people who can pick up locals with
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an antenna I'm able to sign up for one
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of Sling t these two base plans for a
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few months out of the year at recording
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time that is $46 a month then I've got a
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couple other paid streaming services
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ones that I picked up on Black Friday
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and it brings my monthly total to just
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over $50 a month now I also get
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Paramount plus with Walmart plus but I
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don't really factor that into my
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streaming TV budget to me that's
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separate and so is Amazon Prime now some
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people pay 50 to 100 bucks a month on
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streaming without any cable 2.0 bundle
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and usually these are people who hate
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ads the no ads Disney Hulu and Max
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bundle and Netflix premium that would
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put you at over $50 a month but let's
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say you added peacock premium plus and
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Paramount plus with Showtime now we're
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at more than $80 a month entering the
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high end of the range people who like
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sports but hate ads the most frustrated
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streamers in this price range but what
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if you don't mind a few ads let's talk
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about that next about a third of the
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people who responded to my poll said
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they want to spend $50 a month or less
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on streaming and that's not counting the
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people who pay nothing with this budget
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we're talking a lot less about those
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full cable 2.0 bundles or bundles in
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general except for maybe the
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entertainment ones like pho and friendly
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people working with $50 a month or less
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are more likely to have an antenna to
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pick up their locals with an antenna you
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can watch the sports that airs on
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broadcast TV as well as your local news
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and then just pay for a few apps that
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have the shows and movies that you want
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to watch this is exactly what I do when
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I'm on a summer pause from a cable 2.0
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bundle now if you're in this price range
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and still trying to avoid some ads you
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may want to go with Netflix and one or
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two other services
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that would keep you below $50 a month
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but take a look at this these are the
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six adree services that I just mentioned
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in the previous segment the total price
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way out of budget more than $80 a month
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but if you got the plans with
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advertising you would be around $40 a
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month under budget and that's before
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taking advantage of any of the deals on
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Michael saves deals.com there are some
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people a lot of people in fact who who
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pay absolutely nothing for streaming TV
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using fast or free streaming apps three
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of my favorites Pluto TV Tubi and the
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Roku Channel many of these Services have
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caik TV guides and they offer a mix of
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Live And OnDemand content some Originals
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too mostly I turn to these services for
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movies and news headlines these services
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are not going away in fact some
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companies behind cable 2.0 bundles sling
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TV Direct TV and Pho they have also
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launched free services that do not
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require a subscription sling free stream
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is a good one to start with it comes
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with some DVR storage leave a comment
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below let me know your favorite people
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who watch less Sports and More ads they
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are able to save the most with streaming
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TV as for paying the most that's anyone
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with a full cable 2.0 bundle but the new
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more flexible bundles and the other
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trends that I've got listed here they
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can be opportunities to downgrade and
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save I'm going to repeat this same poll
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question next year and my hope is that
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more people will actually be paying
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under $100 a month and that's because in
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the next year they're going to be able
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to leave their full cable 2.0 bundle and
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find everything they need from the cheap
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cheaper options we've talked about today
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if downgrading is just not an option for
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you there are still a few ways to save
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money with a full bundle rotate Services
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pause or cancel for part of the year and
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limit your total subscriptions you may
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be able to offset the rising streaming
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TV costs by switching to a cheaper
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internet or phone plan I've done both
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for the past few years I've paid $50 a
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month for T-Mobile home internet and $25
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a month for an unlimited phone plan with
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visible by Verizon it's been nice to
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have those two Bills remain steady as
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the price of streaming TV and so much
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else has gone up keep the savings going
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