A Morning Jolt: Our Monthly Media Bill Is Up 13.6 Percent.

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Bright and early Saturday morning, I got up and paid the cable bill. Then I started thinking, which is never a good thing.We sure pay a lot for media around here.At this point, there are only two of us in the house.

We haven’t added services or purchased much in the way of pay-per-view films (and zero when it comes to movie tickets).But our monthly bill for media, communications and entertainment is up 13.6 percent from last year, from $831 in May of 2021—including amortization of some quarterly, semi-annual, and annual payments—to $944 this year.

That’s a current tab of about $11,328 a year, not counting some stray magazine purchases, up from $9,972 the year before.To me, that was a bit of a shock.

No movies. No subscription news blasts. Certainly no Broadway shows. But the embedded cost our modest media life is up sharply from a year ago, thanks in part to the expiration of a ‘welcome aboard’ deal from Spectrum.