I might of missed this option, but I too cannot watch the "normal/national" channels with their commercials and liberal leaning "news". It's the local sports, hunting and car/racing channels (and Dr Pol...) that I would miss if I cut the DirecTv cord. What options would I have?
With HULU, we can download the channels that we like. Travel Channel, History Channel, DIY Channel and others like that. Then we open up the channel like an App on your phone or computer and look through all their different shows. Most are listed alphabetically, so you just scroll through them to see what you want to watch. What I've found to be the biggest surprise is all the shows that I never heard of on those channels. I guess they came on when I wasn't watching TV, odd hours or when something else is on another channel that we really like. With so much junk out there, it's fun discovering something you didn't even know existed!!!
My wife has AT&T for her cell phone service and it's something like $20 a month extra so we can get a couple dozen cable channels from Direct TV through HULU. It's a different button on the HULU remote that we push that takes us to those channels. It includes FOX and OAN for news. I watched Judge Janine and Gutfield on it last night.
Some of the HULU channels want a subscription to watch, so we pas son those, but some of them have free stuff along with shows that you have to pay for. Building Off the Grid and Building Alaska are two shows that I watch on HULU that have free seasons, and the newer seasons require a subscription, so I just watch the older seasons that are free.
Also on HULU, we watch a lot of YouTube now. You just search for a show that you like, or maybe just heard of, and see what comes up. My wife loves the Voice, so when we learned that there is a British version of the Voice, we looked it up on Youtube and watched a bunch of episodes. For us, it's a lot of fun seeing how these shows are so different in other countries. Same with America's Got Talent. We've watching the British version, and probably a dozen other countries that have their own version. Singapore's Got Talent is HILARIOUS!!!
After watching Gutfield last night, I read where there are so many elk in the Snowy Mountains of Montana that they are extending the seasons and giving out extra tags to get the numbers down. So I looked up elk hunting in the snowy mountains on Youtube and watched a few elk hunting shows that varied from pretty good, to gong back to find another after 2 minutes. Being able to go back and click on another show is a huge plus when looking for something entertaining to watch.
