Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Read HERE..... What’s happening to my MotorTrend+ subscription? On 28 March 2024, if you subscribe to MotorTrend+, one of two things will happen:
You will automatically be a discovery+ (Ad-Free) subscriber and get access to MotorTrend+ video content. To learn more, go to I'll automatically be a discovery+ subscriber. - OR - Your subscription will simply end on 28 March 2024 and there will be no further charges. For refund questions, go to My subscription will simply end.
John
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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03/01/24 01:37 PM
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Its also $70/yr now, I canceled Yikes!
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Its also $70/yr now, I canceled Really? My current subscription is $4.99/mo. $70/year is $5.83/mo. 84 cents is killing you?
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Its also $70/yr now, I canceled mine says it will be 54 a year up from 44 a year. new content of the shows i like come out way too far apart.. i may cancel..
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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03/01/24 06:41 PM
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Here's the e-mail I received last week, although I haven't taken any action, yet Edit: Just checked and my sub doesn't end until December 2024
Last edited by Brad_Haak; 03/01/24 06:45 PM.
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Its also $70/yr now, I canceled Really? My current subscription is $4.99/mo. $70/year is $5.83/mo. 84 cents is killing you? Mine was $2.00 per month (promo from years ago), and that's all it was worth to me, I only watched 2-3 shows off and on
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Thanks for the info. I stopped using them after they bumped up their price from $2.99 to $4.99. At $70 a year, not that important enough to watch when I am bored. And the shows have been dropping in quality big time. "On this episode of Roadkill I am david frieburger that hasnt slept in 6 months and here's finnegan that just got off the plane from Georgia and has no idea, or care, whats going on as he's just here for a paycheck"
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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I used to write for them but they made it impossible for me to work anymore and now I think the guy I used to work for is gone. They stopped writing new content a while back, Hot Rod is now mostly just recycled content from earlier years. I think the end is near for all print magazines and maybe even the online stuff. At last years Holley Moparty a few buddies and me got to talk to a guy that gave us the lowdown on what was going on with Motortrend and the changes that were already going on then. They didn't want the show hosts to really be the stars, they wanted to be able to plug any body in the spot run the shows. He is/was one of the TV hosts and is friends with the rest of them. He talked about how they went out of their way to kill off the print stuff "right now" even though is was already slowly dying but could have survived for years.
Kayse can't keep up at all now. lol
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Most of the magazines they produced were profitable. But Discovery did not want to be in the publishing business, so they kill them. Even though it was the only thing supporting MotorTrend+, as MT+ has never made a profit in all the years of its existence.
And they won't sell the properties because they don't want someone to make a competing successful brand off of one of their old Intellectual Properties. So they just killed the magazines and let them sit forever.
And now with Hot Rod only being quarterly, they no longer need a bunch of new articles. They only need a handful of new articles a year, so they aren't producing anything extra really anymore. Now until the end they are just going to keep regurgitate old stuff.
Discovery hates the original MotorTrend shows. It goes against everything that they want to do. Just have garbage cheap shows full of drama to entice women into watching, since more often than not the woman is the decision maker in the house. They do not want content that guys like us will watch, because we are such a small niche. I heard this from one of the the execs in a meeting over there a few years ago.
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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Most of the magazines they produced were profitable. But Discovery did not want to be in the publishing business, so they kill them. Even though it was the only thing supporting MotorTrend+, as MT+ has never made a profit in all the years of its existence.
And they won't sell the properties because they don't want someone to make a competing successful brand off of one of their old Intellectual Properties. So they just killed the magazines and let them sit forever.
And now with Hot Rod only being quarterly, they no longer need a bunch of new articles. They only need a handful of new articles a year, so they aren't producing anything extra really anymore. Now until the end they are just going to keep regurgitate old stuff.
Discovery hates the original MotorTrend shows. It goes against everything that they want to do. Just have garbage cheap shows full of drama to entice women into watching, since more often than not the woman is the decision maker in the house. They do not want content that guys like us will watch, because we are such a small niche. I heard this from one of the the execs in a meeting over there a few years ago.
So, they are going to pull a bud light?
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Re: Motortrend stopping streaming service?
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If there is a demand for auto shows, someone will step up and make them. If there is no demand they'll disappear. What happened to comedy variety shows, Carol Burnett, Ed Sullivan, Sonny and Cher, Rowan and Martin, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason....
"We live in a time when intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended".
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