

These partnerships never influence our reviews, rankings, or recommendations. We work with partners and may receive compensation through these partnerships. Nobody other than our editorial staff or advisory team have any influence over our reviews, rankings, or recommendations. When you read our reviews or check our top picks for cord-cutting products and services, you can trust that you're seeing the result of hours of testing and years of experience in the cord-cutting space. We make editorial decisions based on our expertise, first-hand experience, and informed opinions. We research options, new technology, share tips, review services, and more, at no cost to our readers. Our goal at is to help people save money on the TV they love and access it on-the-go. Since I live too far from over the air signal, the only free tv for me are a few channels that truly are free on Roku and my DVD collection. Personally, I refuse to pay to watch a bunch of over payed whiner athletes that won’t even respect the flag of the country that’s enabling them to become multi-millionaires playing a game.

It really boils down to excessive greed on the part of the networks and sports teams/athletes. You can’t even listen to a sports radio broadcast over the internet anymore without having to pay for it (on top of the commercials). I have found it is impossible to even get a live person in the USA with Roku even if you call the corporate office.), If you choose to have any channels, other than the truly free ones, or you want to watch sports or the major networks, you still end up paying too much. equipment or the customer service from each streaming provider (Roku is HORRIBLE by the way. In addition, you never mention the quality/user friendliness of the Roku etc. Having to pay Hulu (which used to be free) or Sling or whoever) to get the so called “free” channels is just a lie. I have a Roku Ultra and I have to say the equipment/remote leaves something to be desired (Little things like current time and date or being able to search for other programs while still watching the current program, etc.) I also think it’s completely disingenuous to claim you’re getting tbs or NBCsports etc. Now we pay and still get too many commercials AND get lousy service as well. The original pay tv services (ON and Select Tv) had no commercials because you were paying a fee for the service. Everyone of these channels with tons of commercials should be aired/streamed for free like ALL tv used to be. How can you say you’re “cordcutting” or “getting a channel free” when you have to have cable or satellite and STILL pay up to $100 to get standard channels that you get with cable/satellite? I cancelled my satellite Directtv because I was fed up with paying a ridiculous amount for tv with excessive commercials AND lousy service and equipment.
