Five Money Saving Tips for Cord Cutters

This is How We Cut Our Cable TV Bill to $19 a Month

There is No Better Time To Be A Cord Cutter

Here are several great tips on how to be a frugal cord cutter and greatly reduce the money spent every month to watch TV.
The average paid TV subscription was $107 dollars in 2018. And according to Fortune.com 2018 only saw a modest 1% increase in cable TV and satellite bills. Other years the cost went up 3% or more.

One thing's for certain, cable and satellite bills won't get any less expensive and will only end up costing more in the next few years.

Cutting The Cord Will Change The Way You Watch TV

How many times have we heard cable TV subscribers say, "A hundred channels on cable and nothing good on to watch!"

Being a cord cutter gives full control back to the viewer. You can choose from many great streaming TV services now that offer endless choices of programming content. Either live TV or on-demand.

Watch TV Without Annoying Commercials

The Washington Post wrote an interesting article. On cable and network TV, The average viewer spends about six days a year out of their life watching commercials. A Netflix subscription can save you all this extra time. Sure, a DVR can cut this time down significantly. But it still requires advancing through commercials which is both disruptive and takes away time that could be better spent watching TV.

Don't Miss this List of 100 New and Popular Shows on Netflix »

Tip 1 - Choose The Right Media Streamer

A good media streamer for each TV is a must have to cut the cord. While there are a staggering amount of media streamers available some are better than others. And the best ones are made and sold by Roku, Nvidia, Apple, and Amazon. And each brand can have its pluses and minuses. Use this guide to find the best media streamer to replace a cable TV or satellite receiver.

Then Add these FREE Channels for your Roku or Android media streamer.

Tip Number 2 - Subscribe to Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime Video

Cutting the cord does not mean not paying for TV. Subscribing to Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime Video will give you an endless amount of great television programming for a much lower cost than a monthly cable TV bill.

The cost of a Hulu subscription with ads is now only $5.99/month. A basic non-HD Netflix Subscription after their recent price increase is $8.99 with zero ads. And Amazon Prime Video which is part of Prime costs less than $10/month if paying for a one-year subscription in advance. (Students Get a FREE 6/month Trial to Amazon Prime !)

Pluto TV offers many great channels that were available on cable minus the sports and news channels for only $15/month. Learn more about Pluto...

Watch FREE HD TV from an Over The Air Antenna

Tip Number 3 - Replace Your Satellite Dish With an Over The Air Antenna

Satellite subscribers have the perfect setup to eliminate that expensive monthly bill. Remove the old round dish and use the existing mast to attach an outside TV antenna. The existing cable coax wire is already routed into the home and is grounded. This will provide cord cutters with a crystal clear HD TV signal of Network channels like CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox, and PBS.

See How to Watch Free TV With an "Over The Air" HD Antenna »

This video shows how to replace a Satellite dish with a Clearstream 4 - 70 Mile Range Antenna

Tip 4 - Watch Sports Without Cable TV

Watching Sports is really the number one reason many people choose to keep their expensive monthly cable bill. There are now less expensive ways to watch sports. When it comes to Sports, Fubo TV is the number one live streaming TV service that caters directly to sports fans. And this service includes a wide range of other channels for watching movies and TV shows as well.

Streaming Live TV requires a powerful media streamer. And Fubo's live streaming service works better on some platforms than others. We recommend that you Sign-up for their Free 7/day trial first to make sure their streaming service works well on your current media streamer.

Tip 5 - Watch Free TV With These Channels and Apps

Supplement a monthly on-demand or Live streaming TV subscription with Free TV. We put together several great lists of Free channels that work on Roku, Fire TV or Android media streamers. These channels and apps have countless hours of live TV shows, News, Sports, Music, Movies, TV shows, documentaries, and more.

While these channels don't charge a monthly subscription fee, most contain ads. Some of the better ones like Tubi TV have a lot of great content with minimal ads.

Our Favorite FREE TV Channels

Tubi TV - Tons Of Free Content With Minimal Ads!
The Roku Channel - Nice selection of Free Movies and Shows
Pluto TV - Live Cable Like Channel with Guide
Amazon IMDb Freedive - Watch Free Movies and TV Shows
HayStack TV - Great Free News Channel

Tip 5 - Hidden Channels on Roku

Roku has a great number of secret hidden channels which are not accessible from the public channel store. They need to be added from codes or using add channel links provided by the channel developers. These channels may contain "Adult content", or are channels simply not yet ready for public viewing. Our huge A-Z Roku Channels List includes many Roku private channels.

Bonus Tip - Free Web App for Cord Cutters!

We built a Web App that resembles a remote control. It has ton's of buttons that link to great channels you can watch or stream. Many that are free.
Learn more about our app and and find and watch some great FREE TV without subscribing to cable or satellite TV!