Is there any path to creating a Fox News optout for cable TV subscribers?

[Girard442]

I don't have a lot of enthusiasm for kicking the plug out of the wall, but I'd opt to defund Fox in a heartbeat, even if I had to pay.

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Alas, cable providers refuse to do ala carte channel line ups

[Girard442]

2. If Fox started putting on porn, they would.

And isn't porn a lot less destructive than what they do do?

[catbyte]

6. Well, to be fair, it is porn--political porn.

No redeeming social value, whatsoever and a lot more toxic than the other porn.

[NurseJackie]

3. We have opted out of Fox News...

... we cut the cable and we only stream what we watch on the television. Occasionally we'll use the Roku apps for NBC news, CBSN, and ABC news (if needed) and we can pull-in local channels over the air (but rarely do we choose to do that unless there's a storm approaching).

With our high-speed Fios + the subscriptions for Netflix, HBO, Show, Hulu, Britbox, Peacock, Amazon and Philo... we have MORE TV and Movies than we can ever watch.

AND IT STILL COSTS LESS THAN CABLE.

[Girard442]

4. Interesting. You say FIOS allows you to NOT put $$$ into regular cable TV?

[Scrivener7]

5. I have Roku too. The FIOS is only for the internet to run the Roku.

[Delphinus]

9. Helpful information.

Getting ready to leave cable behind because we simply don't watch enough TV to justify paying for it.

[NurseJackie]

10. There are SO MANY free options...

... yes with commercials, but the "on-demand" options make it so easy to watch what and when we want.

I think cable-tv (as we currently know it) is in its death throes.

[kimbutgar]

7. I tried to get it taken off my Dish lineup when they raised the rates

I also said take off Newsmax and those Christian hate channels but they refused but I did get my monthly rate lowered when I said I’m looking at cable instead.

But I don’t want any of my money going to Fox.

[cinematicdiversions]

8. If you don't have cable you can then just subscribe to the channels you want.

I have Showtime for the next two months at 99 cents a month through Amazon Prime for example.

[Initech]

11. I just block it.

[edhopper]

16. You still pay for it.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I've reached out to Hulu

Technically - they should be able to have a la carte programming -

IE

50 channels of your choice for this amount. I would definitely NOT have Fox in my line up.

[DBoon]

13. Can you use the parental control feature to block it?

You would still be paying for it, but their audience would be diminished in the all-important ratings, which determine advertizing rates

[hunter]

14. My wife and I quit cable a long time ago.

We quit broadcast television a little later.

We never run out of stuff to watch and best of all -- NO COMMERCIALS!

Mostly we watch Netflix which is $8.99 a month.

Conversing with my adult children, nephews, and nieces it seems that cable and broadcast television doesn't exist in their universe.

I think traditional television is trying to squeeze more and more from a diminishing population of viewers, in terms of subscription costs, and in eyeballs for their advertising.

[roamer65]

15. I know of only one package that has other cable networks without Faux.

Dish’s Flex Pack.

It has most of the cable stuff and only CNN.

They have a Flex Pack news add on package that has MSNBC…but then you get stuck with Faux.