{"id":1479,"date":"2012-01-29T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T00:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2012-01-30T09:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:10:17","slug":"to-be-direct-directvs-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2012\/01\/to-be-direct-directvs-the-best.html","title":{"rendered":"To Be Direct, DirecTV&#8217;s The Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With over 35 moves in my life, I&#8217;ve had most of the cable or satellite TV offerings that are available and one thing still holds true:<\/p>\n<p>DirecTV is still the best overall product.<\/p>\n<p>Let me clear, I don&#8217;t currently have DirecTV as I switched to another company bundle my home phone, TV and internet services together to save money.<\/p>\n<p>Just in sports programming I notice a difference, however, as it seems DirecTV takes care to offer some smaller channels, like Peachtree in Georgia, for instance, for a few more Atlanta Braves games than its competitors.<\/p>\n<p>And MASN, and ESPN3D, the latter two not offered on U-Verse, for instance. I miss my DirecTV, especially when I see one of their clever and\/or funny ads.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy the most recent one, slippery slope argument that\u00a0 it may be, that if you don&#8217;t subscribe to DirecTV you will wind up with a grandson with a dog collar.<\/p>\n<p>Funny stuff, indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With over 35 moves in my life, I&#8217;ve had most of the cable or satellite TV offerings that are available and one thing still holds true: DirecTV is still the best overall product. 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