Cracks in the cable business send media stocks tumbling

washingtoncompost ^ | August 7 2015 | Thad Moore

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Media companies were slammed on Wall Street this week as investors grew increasingly fearful that even industry giants would be swamped by the rising tide of cord-cutting consumers and the ebb of traditional television viewing.

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If they weren't separate services you wouldn't be able to buy them separately.

I can buy them separately right now, and in a package deal too. And I can do that with a couple of different providers in my city.

I get TV and Internet and Phone service, for $124.00. I can do TV alone for $49. Telephone, if done separately, would be about $20-30. If I dropped TV and phone, my service provider would charge me $84 for internet alone. Apparently, my ISP has a hint about what I'd be up to with cutting those other services.