Cable cutters, rejoice

So…Fox One gonna be the cheapest way to watch the races up till mid May? Shows it’s priced at $19.99, unless they decide to double it when the races start.
 
So Time-Warner / Spectrum's cable service had a bunch of music channels from a service called Music Choice. There were dozens channels, each with a different genre, 24-7, ad-free, included as part of the subscription. MC isn't available for my Amazon Fire Sticks, and similar services don't appear to be available in Hulu or YouTubeTV. Any suggestions for a similar service? I don't mind paying $8 or $10 a month or so for a subscription service. I'm looking for a service only for the Fire Stick, not for any other devices.

I have zero experience with music services of any kind; please understand if I follow up with stupid questions. Thanks.
 
BobbyFord said:
Pandora and Spotify have free music options. Subscribing gets rid of the commercials.
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And they'll let Darling Bride pick a genre or era, like 'Broadway Tunes' or 'Big Bands' or 'Light Classical'? She won't have to manually build playlists of individual artists / albums / songs?

Thanks.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
And they'll let Darling Bride pick a genre or era, like 'Broadway Tunes' or 'Big Bands' or 'Light Classical'? She won't have to manually build playlists of individual artists / albums / songs?

Thanks.
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My coworker uses Pandora, I believe. You pick a genre and it plays different songs. As I understand it, you can thumbs-up or thumbs-down a song and it won’t play it again.
 
Brentford said:
So…Fox One gonna be the cheapest way to watch the races up till mid May? Shows it’s priced at $19.99, unless they decide to double it when the races start.
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FOX One is pretty solid.

The local affiliate thing is a gripe though. If your local FOX station interrupts for something, you're stuck with that unless it's on FOX 4K.

NBC is doing the same thing with Peacock now. If they interrupt for an NBC News Special Report, you're stuck with it. And from my understanding, CBS Sports live programming on Paramount+ is also just your local channel.

One of the big things we have constantly heard from local and national broadcasters about live sports interruptions is that you can "watch on the app." Now, they're taking that away.
 
HoneyBadger said:
FOX One is pretty solid.

The local affiliate thing is a gripe though. If your local FOX station interrupts for something, you're stuck with that unless it's on FOX 4K.

NBC is doing the same thing with Peacock now. If they interrupt for an NBC News Special Report, you're stuck with it. And from my understanding, CBS Sports live programming on Paramount+ is also just your local channel.

One of the big things we have constantly heard from local and national broadcasters about live sports interruptions is that you can "watch on the app." Now, they're taking that away.
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Fox One is its own app though, separate from Fox Sports app. So while you would be interrupted if watching on the Fox One app, you would be able to use your credentials to log into the Fox Sports app and watch on there without the interruption. I haven’t verified yet that Fox allows you to log into the Fox Sports app with your Fox One sign in, but if so, I’d imagine it would be free of local interruptions.

On the topic of Fox One, the only gripe I have is that there isn’t a fast forward on their recordings, so I had to watch the entire broadcast of the truck race without being able to zoom through commercials and yellow flags.
 
Brentford said:
Fox One is its own app though, separate from Fox Sports app. So while you would be interrupted if watching on the Fox One app, you would be able to use your credentials to log into the Fox Sports app and watch on there without the interruption.
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When I went to the FOX Sports app, it sent me directly to the FOX One app. On multiple devices. My guess is they're going to phase that app out, just like ESPN did with some of their stuff, since cable TV credentials get you access to FOX One.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
So Time-Warner / Spectrum's cable service had a bunch of music channels from a service called Music Choice. There were dozens channels, each with a different genre, 24-7, ad-free, included as part of the subscription. MC isn't available for my Amazon Fire Sticks, and similar services don't appear to be available in Hulu or YouTubeTV. Any suggestions for a similar service? I don't mind paying $8 or $10 a month or so for a subscription service. I'm looking for a service only for the Fire Stick, not for any other devices.

I have zero experience with music services of any kind; please understand if I follow up with stupid questions. Thanks.
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I’ve always thought iHeartRadio was a good, free service.
 
Brentford said:
On the topic of Fox One, the only gripe I have is that there isn’t a fast forward on their recordings, so I had to watch the entire broadcast of the truck race without being able to zoom through commercials and yellow flags.
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I was able to fast forward through the long ass cautions in the ARCA race.
 
Brentford said:
On the topic of Fox One, the only gripe I have is that there isn’t a fast forward on their recordings, so I had to watch the entire broadcast of the truck race without being able to zoom through commercials and yellow flags.
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I'm not surprised you couldn't forward through the ads, but it is unusual to be unable to forward through the program content.
 
HoneyBadger said:
I was able to fast forward through the long ass cautions in the ARCA race.
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Weird. Was the ARCA race on Fox or FS1? Maybe that made a difference. Also, truck race ended like an hour before I watched it, so maybe that too affected it. It just told me fast forward wasn’t supported. I watch using Appletv device, so that too could play a factor.
HoneyBadger said:
When I went to the FOX Sports app, it sent me directly to the FOX One app. On multiple devices. My guess is they're going to phase that app out, just like ESPN did with some of their stuff, since cable TV credentials get you access to FOX One.
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That’s a bummer! We’re always getting interrupted here during NASCAR season with severe storm coverage.
 
Brentford said:
That’s a bummer! We’re always getting interrupted here during NASCAR season with severe storm coverage.
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Nothing tops when the Bristol Night Race and the Richmond Chase cutoff race were on ABC. Those races were always pre-empted for football or severe weather coverage with no alternatives many times.
 
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