Just got Direct TV Now and it opens up directly to Fox News

[honeylady]

Anyone else experience this? I live stream through Amazon Fire. Just yesterday downloaded app for Direct TV Now and its default is Fox News. So far the only way I can figure to move away from that is with the voice controller.

This pisses me off.

[AJT]

1. Find another provider.

[still_one]

2. Just set your favorites list so it doesnt include them. If you go with Sling TV Fox isnt included

in their base packages, it is an add on. CNN comes with base package

You also have option of recording to the cloud

Personally I think sling tv offers more features, and also is more flexible in what streams you want

[Gabi Hayes]

5. Just started with the sling, via Roku; 5 bucks a month for dvr

There should be a forum for this

Bye bye $140 per month for cable with 1 dvr, no premium channels

Savings of ~$1400 a year!

[still_one]

9. I believe if you want multiple streams you choose the orange package. They have two base packages,

blue and orange. I believe the orange will give you more sports

[hunter]

8. The problem is that part of your subscription goes to Fox News whether you watch them or not.

That's one reason I don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television. I won't pay to have garbage delivered to my house. I never see television commercials or television propaganda. I think television is the worst possible medium for reporting news or for news analysis.

We do have Netflix, but mostly our television is a DVD player.

I'm a much happier person without traditional television in my life.

[still_one]

10. Then get sling TV. Fox is not part of their blue or orange base packages, In order to get fox on

sling tv you have to pay extra for that privilege

[Siwsan]

3. The worst customer service I ever experienced was with Direct TV

My mom switched to them, ironically, about the time she started showing signs of dementia. They did a lousy installation and refused to make it right, without us paying them even more money to do what they should have done, in the first place. The customer service reps were beyond rude, and when we demanded to speak to their supervisors, it just got worse. We kept her with it until we could disconnect without a massive penalty and made it abundantly clear, to them, why we were discontinuing. They didn't care.

[Mosby]

6. That's a shame.

I have never had issues, and I have been with them since the beginning (1994).

[UTUSN]

4. Direct used to be owned by MURDOCH, so I ended up with Dish (autocratic founder)

Actually, it was a long "evolution" of corporate takeovers.

In the days of yore, I chose satellite because of the bad cable companies. So it was (I think) TurnerVision. But that got taken over by EchoStar? Then (there might have been one or two others), somehow Dish became the lesser of evils. Over the years, there haven't been problems with the signal, hardly even during storms, but there was yearly trouble with Customer Service over paying-by-the-year. Every year I swore I would go elsewhere, but then it was too much trouble. There were 'net articles about how meanly the employees were treated by the example of the autocratic boss (I don't know who's in charge now).

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. IIRC, Murdoch own Direct TV nt

[DrDan]

11. AT&T bought DirecTV several years ago - it remains a subsidiary