I’ll find other ways to spend my time, and that’s fewer eyeballs you’ll have anywhere. When they go off the air, I won’t be searching for new ABC shows to replace them. Three I’ll wait to watch, but the fourth? Nope. And those are only the shows that I currently watch and love, which is down to four (yep, just four) right now. There are some shows that I’m willing to wait to watch, but not many. You know it’s a matter of time, right?ĪBC? If you’re listening, I have a message for you. NBC, however, still keeps free tv as free tv for all, not just those who are (over?)paying for cable with select providers. While CBS doesn’t require you (yet) to have a cable subscription, they simply don’t load shows to their app until a week has passed, which is essentially the same result. CBS has been late to the game in providing online streaming, and again there aren’t any CBS shows I’m interested in watching primarily because they haven’t streamed shows in the past. ABC follows the trend set by Fox and CBS in making this change, as Fox has long required you to provide your cable provider to watch recent shows (but I’ll be honest, there aren’t any Fox shows I watch, so I sort of hadn’t cared). My personal opinion aside, this is the reality at the moment. They updated it to fix some (not insignificant) bugs, and already there are almost 1,500 1 star reviews compared to 14 five star reviews. Within two days, the abc.go app already had over 3,000 one star reviews. Whether it’s because they can’t charge enough per viewing of the commercials online or their shows cost too much to make and license or some other problem altogether, address that root cause. You’re pretty much forced to watch them, unlike when I used to use my VCR to tape show or even my DVR where I could fast forward.Īpparently ABC has decided that they aren’t making enough money from the commercials, and now you have to have an affiliation with an approved cable provider to use the ABC app.

There are at least six commercial breaks in an hour long show, one before the show starts and five throughout the episode, and you cannot fast forward through them or change apps on your tablet or phone to avoid them.

When you stream ABC on the abc.go app, you have to watch commercials. I have a major philosophical issue with this, as ABC is network television and meant to be free tv. The online streaming of ABC changed on January 6, and now you need to sign in to your cable provider to watch new shows via the ABC app. While it isn’t perfect and doesn’t cover every network and every show, it covers everything I care about except some sports. I wrote about how to cut the cord with cable and how I’m using my Roku and PlayOn TV to watch the shows I want to see. It’s been a great experience for me, and an amazing money saver to boot. I cut the cord with cable a long time ago.

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