What It's Been Like To Watch Altitude TV Again

I cut the Comcast cord recently, so have been watching a lot of the Avs house channel

First off, I probably will kiss goodbye any sponsorship opportunities from Comcast/Xfinity with this post. But since this new platform I’m on doesn’t take any direct advertising and doesn’t allow 3,800 pop-up ads to assault you on every story like some of my previous employers did, well, I don’t really give a rat’s derriere what Comcast thinks. I have paid them more than $15,000 in the last 10 years probably, so I have every right to complain.

Here’s what I did last week: I actually was proactive on something like this, which I usually never am: I looked up my Comcast contract. I never know when they’re up, I don’t keep track of things like that and it’s also equivalent to the first mission to the moon in the difficulty of getting a Comcast customer service live person on the phone to actually tell you that.

I discovered that the contract - a two-year deal I signed, without any up-front bonus money and without a no-trade clause - was up Dec. 26. Huzzah! I think I found this out on Dec. 19 or so. On the 26th, I went in to the Comcast/Xfinity story on 88th and Washington, with my wife.

I was paying $255 for the Comcast “Triple Play.” I met with a customer service rep, who looked over my bill and said I wouldn’t get any discounts, even after saying the bills were too high and would cancel otherwise. I thought for a moment there, and just finally said, “I can’t believe I’m paying $255 bleeping dollars a month, including paying for a “regional sports fee” when I can’t even watch the goddamn Avs and Nuggets on my biggest local regional sports network.”

So, we canceled. Well, not totally. I wound up keeping their Internet, for $80 a month, locked in for two years. It was more convenient to keep it, and the price was about the same as places like Century Link, where I’d have to have somebody come out to the house and hook it all up and, etc. etc. etc.

For TV? We went to Fubo. It’s a streaming service, about 120 channels or something, and one of them is Altitude. I got a deal for $64.99 a month. So, my TV/Internet bill has gone from $255 a month to $145 a month. The home security part? I know someone in that business and got a sweet deal, for almost nothing.

I had a seven-day free trial to start out on Fubo, so I watched a ton of Altitude in that time, and this is my report card to you, my dear, still-miserable Comcast subscribers, on what you’re missing: