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Sling sounds like a loser. But who would create a losing idea like this? Could it be the same loser who decided to feature the continually discredited CNN instead of the station that gets many times the viewers, Fox News?

About four years ago, I decided cable was a near total waste of money for me. So, I got rid of cable TV and telephone from Comcast, keeping just the Internet signal. Comcast immediately made a deal to include basic cable, basically for free. With the monthly savings I bought my own modem, a brand new iPad, a new phone, Magic Jack services, a Netflix subscription, and had a friend build a very good computer. Haven't missed cable one iota, almost never use the basic cable, and never once used 890 of the 900 full cable channels. Totally happy with my decision, though my TV demands are probably minimal compared to most. Also, not a phone user, so Magic Jack is more than adequate. Mostly, I certainly don't miss paying Comcast for cable I barely used.

About four years ago, I decided cable was a near total waste of money for me. So, I got rid of cable TV and telephone from Comcast, keeping just the Internet signal. Comcast immediately made a deal to include basic cable, basically for free. With the monthly savings I bought my own modem, a brand new iPad, a new phone, Magic Jack services, a Netflix subscription, and had a friend build a very good computer. Haven't missed cable one iota, almost never use the basic cable, and never once used 890 of the 900 full cable channels. Totally happy with my decision, though my TV demands are probably minimal compared to most. Also, not a phone user, so Magic Jack is more than adequate. Mostly, I certainly don't miss paying Comcast for cable I barely used.

Bob, I look forward to your daily news letter and learn a lot from the comments, usually. As the majordomo of this site do comments like those from FactsRule offer us anything but a troll's angry political rant? How does this advance a legitimate discussion of the issue du jour? What's your policy about this?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I admit to not reading the entire comment before posting it. So I've edited out the political bits. But it did pique my curiousity. According to several sources I found, Fox News does in fact have 3X the prime-time viewership of both CNN and MSNBC. So from that perspective, Dish's choice of CNN in their Sling package does seem odd.

Have been reading all of the posts as we have been searching for how to get rid of Time Warner! I'm still confused as our favorites are History 1 & 2, Discovery, etc. We do not like sports & minimal news as what they say is scripted by the elites. I watch On Demand mostly as I'm on my CPU working daily. Does someone have a suggestion for us? We can not utilize an antenna in our area, (shoot), so can't figure out how to get around T.W. and still see networks and the listed above plus some on our Smart TV's which are not totally set up because T.W. wants even more than the $200.00 per month we already pay. PLEASE HELP!