Would you buy a Paramount+ subscription, if that were the ONLY way to watch Y&R?
- No, I'd have to stop watching. (46%, 21 Votes)
- Yeah, I'd pay $10/mo for Y&R. (33%, 15 Votes)
- I'm already a CBS subscriber! (22%, 10 Votes)
Total Voters: 46
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Poll: Would you buy a Paramount+ subscription, if that were the ONLY way to watch Y&R?
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Any know if Paramount+ will air Y&R from the beginning? Would love to watch it again. The 70s’ Y&R was the best!
I have been watching Y&R my entire life with a few breaks here and there, but steadily the last 10+ years. Currently, I stream it on YouTube TV, but I watch it every day when I get home. It’s my relax the work day away.
I DVR Y&R (and Bold) every day. I have been watching Y&R back when Cricket and Nina were besties, She and Victoria were fighting over the same men and and Chance Chancellor was not even a thought yet. I would have to pay because I can’t imagine not watching it anymore. The show has been incredible and also insanely ridiculous throughout the years but it’s still my show, my characters, and I am loyal. People who watch casually can turn it on every few years and feel like they have not missed anything but people who watch it daily feel… Read more »
Well, Sesame Street broadcasts its new episodes on HBO now.
Hi Ali, for your information I record Y&R and watch it on DVR in the evening. Before and even during COVID, with working a standard office hours I can not watch Y&R live as I am not able to. I am thinking that must be the case for many working individuals who work the standard office hours, that they either have the record the program and watch by DVR or are either part of a streaming service. For the working group, I find watching the show real time as it airs is not always an option. Hope you find this… Read more »
As tough as a decision it would be, I think I would pay $10/month to keep watching Y&R. If the price increased the decision would start be more questionable. I don’t know how much time wise I would be able to watch other shows based on the subscription.
I voted yes I would pay. I cut my cable cord along time ago. I’ve been streaming and find it easier than I feared. I have a very reliable, fast Internet and I only have to subscribe for the things that I want and I can cancel anytime . I am a diehard soap opera fan and would pay for the privilege of seeing the shows. If I wanted to rewatch something, it would be pretty easy to do it from the Paramont catalog. I can’t imagine a weekday without visiting The Newmans, the Abbotts, the Winters and the Fishers.… Read more »
I think you can actually watch Y&R via the website for free; that’s what I used to do initially. But I subscribed to all Access so it would be ad-free and b/c there are some other CBS shows I watch. It’s really not all that expensive; I think I actually save a bit with the annual plan. Subscription may be a new dawn for soaps. They can market it as an all year long daily binge. You could also get a bit edgier if it’s not on broadcast TV. I’m curious is those who watch it online/streaming are counted into… Read more »
I currently record the episodes but I can also get them on demand with only one commercial between breaks. I choose to watch the recordings as the on demand is always one episode behind. I sometimes stream it online at the Global website but only if the episode didn’t air live for some reason. I am grateful for y&r chat as your screen captioned pictures let me know that I am sometimes missing an episode that didn’t air live. I then go to Global to watch it. This has happened a few times, as I would have not realized I… Read more »
No. There are so many other options! In Canada I can watch on GlobalTV free if my PVR fails. Other options include: yt, you can d/l, stream on dailymotion, VPN. If classic episodes were on the streaming service I think some people would sign up. There is an episode from 2013 I still haven’t been able to get my hands on.
The question is would a 64 year old want to pay to buy a Paramount subscription? Some may not want to be challenged by the technology of the new order. Others may not want to be challenged by it but are so loyal to a show that has been such a big part of their lives that they would be willing to do so. What I think people would not be open to is any way that would challenge the format of their watching which is 5 days a week daytime viewing. A soap is not a soap if it… Read more »
There are other genres for high tec drama and for the the show to charge it would have to change it’s scope completely loosing it’s mom & pop quality of small town life where there are no real people seen but the characters in the story who run into each other wherever they go. The rich would be forced from their cozy hotel suites (same set walls redecorated) into real homes shot on location, etc. I question that it would work out very well. A soap is a soap and need to remain a soap.
Here’s a compliment for Y&R CHAT: After a lifetime of free Y&R TV I don’t know that I would want to suddenly pay to keep watching, but I would pay to see Y&R CHAT. After so many years I couldn’t now do it without you. Just don’t go getting any ideas…
Aw, thanks! It’s interesting to see how the votes are shaking out so far. Most of us need our Y&R with a price tag of $0! Haha.
show would have to be better than it is now
I started watching when I was 12. I am now 54.
But as much as am nostalgic about the show. The current storylines and over all writing would not drive me to subscribe to watch. By the way I watch the show live, but only over the last year, due to working from home, before that on demand, on the weekends.
From 12 to 54! I don’t know if you feel this way too, but there are so few things I can relate to about my 12-13 year old self. Y&R is one of them.
Hey those are my exact numbers too!
My daughter said she would subscribe to Paramoint.
Fully hypothetical question! AND, I just realized I needed to add a 3rd option for people who are already CBS subscribers. Not on the ball today, Ali. Not on the ball!
I am already a subscriber and I enjoy having it. Watch Y&R with no commercials, and it is a godsend for preemptions that are only in NY. Which happens quite a bit here. But the problem is when like me you have more than one of these like Hulu and Netflix etc .At first I didn’t want to pay for a channel I already have on cable but it is nice for primetime shows as well as Soaps that you didn’t get to see or want to see again
Wouldn’t it be cool if Y&R had FULL old seasons, though? I think they just have select classics, right? It seems like CBS has a lot of good original programming on the subscription site, but I wonder how long it would take to get through all the good stuff. Years ago, I had Netflix (DVDs, then streaming), and I eventually ran out of shows that interested me, then I was stuck with the subscription, so I cancelled it.
I would love to have access to all of the old seasons.