Satellite TV Costs Could Rise: Ways to Reduce Bill

Many households will see an increase in programming fees this coming. These increases will come this year but there are still ways to reduce your subscriber fees.

Companies like DirecTV and Dish provide customer discounts when you elect for auto-bill pay.  And now with the merger of AT&T with DirecTV customers can link their AT&T bill and get even bigger discounts.  Overall subscribers should see a 6% increase in fees over the next year.  If you have been a longtime customer it never hurts to call up your service provider and ask for discounts and/or bundles.

If you like premium channels but are agnostic to premium brand switching from Showtime to HBO could provide even more savings depending on your TV provider.  For example, you will save $7 by switching to HBO this year with Comcast.

Most all providers offer streaming services similar to Netflix which could help decide if you want eliminate that service altogether.  Doing a simple cost analysis is always beneficial since most people don’t realize how little they actually use a service until they keep track of it.