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Old 06-04-2011, 10:08 AM
 
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any suggestions?

looking for a provider thats not overpriced.....
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Old 06-04-2011, 10:31 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Cox. The other two are satellite dish companies.
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Old 06-04-2011, 10:54 AM
 
Location: Summerlin, NV
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You also have Prism/CenturyLink which is cable about the same price as Cox.
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Old 06-04-2011, 11:11 AM
 
Location: NW Las Vegas - Lone Mountain
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Cox...

The Sports nuts go for Direct or Direct and Cox.
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Old 06-04-2011, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Beautiful Upstate NY!
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Cox...

The Sports nuts go for Direct or Direct and Cox.
Women...and gay guys...also go for Cox.
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Old 06-04-2011, 12:59 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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If having lots of HD channels matters, you'll want to go for something other than Cox. Excluding locals, sports, and PPV, Dish has about 110 channels in HD and Cox has about 67. Cox has a single channel each from Starz and Showtime in HD, while Dish has eleven total. I'm assuming the online channel lineup is accurate, if not, sorry.
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Old 06-04-2011, 03:44 PM
 
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I got rid of cable over a year ago. Either I've changed or TV has just gotten terrible. I can go over someone's place and flip through over 100 channels and it all seems like regurgitated nonsense.
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Old 06-04-2011, 05:12 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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You also have Prism/CenturyLink which is cable about the same price as Cox.
Where's 'at? Is that the cable in Henderson? It's not all over the Valley is it?
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Old 06-04-2011, 05:31 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Jeez, we get about 2 million channels on Cox and still don't watch more than about ten of them. That's the one bill I hate paying. I have hated cable TV ever since I got my first job in television and the local cable company tried to put us out of business. It became a landmark FCC court case, BTW, in the early 60's. Makes three of those I was involved in somehow.

It's never been a big problem in Las Vegas, but in all the other TV markets where I've worked we had a constant battle making cable operators adhere to the laws concerning carrying our programming.

If y'all are young enough to remember, cable TV was only supposed to bring the local channels to areas too far away from any TV stations. They were never supposed to run commercials of their own. Now you have to pay for the cable besides watch commercials that they get paid millions of dollars for. If the politicians weren't bought and paid for by cable operators, and the FCC was allowed to do it's job (or forced to do it's job), you'd get cable for free just like a local TV station, and they'd still be taking millions of dollars out of your communities to send to their corporate offices elsewhere. Cables take from, but never contribute, to the local community. Not anything like the local TV stations do anyway.

I doubt anyone here knows that cable TV got started in Las Vegas in either the late 60's or early 70's, but in a small way. It took a while to get going, but there were a lot of shenanigans going on with politicians, and also the Las Vegas Sun owners.

OK, folding up my soapbox now.
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Old 06-04-2011, 06:35 PM
 
Location: Kingman AZ
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WHAT!!!!! the Greenwhatevers doin underthetableunethical things.....say it so....say it aint so .....
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