[EdnaMode]

Can't be a coincidence that 762,000 Americans cut cable in the first quarter of the year, and TV ratings are at historic lows. Terrible network shows, TV shows pushing agendas, stars like Meryl Streep attacking President Trump and conservatives at Award Shows, and people no longer able to afford cable due to Obamacare. Way to go liberals.

[TigerClaws]

Good!

ESPN loses $6 per lost subscriber. Cut that place to the bone with the PC b.s.

[stormhill]

Guess I’m not alone then. Clipped cable a couple of months ago.

[fatima]

The networks have a gay in every show.We turned them all off.Watch Live PD Friday and Saturday,Blacklist.The end.

[Licensed-To-Carry]

As soon as I can figure out how to get just the 10-12 channels I watch, I’m cutting too.

[Castigar]

Except for some sporting events and some obscure tv shows you can watch virtually anything on cable for free using a TV box or stick (android box, fire stick) and a digital over-the-air antenna. You can even watch lots of foreign shows not on US or Canadian cable like LOTS of stuff from Australia and Scandinavia.

[suthener]

I just moved out of the metro area into the country. I want badly to get satellite tv for various reasons but just can’t bring myself to do it. I absolutely refuse to support MSNBC, the homosexual channel, CNN, etc. I cut the cord several years ago.

[Seruzawa]

The only station I watched was Turner Classic Movies and TNT (Angie Harmon, hubba hubba). It wasn’t worth $175 per month. Cut the cable 3 years ago. There’s plenty to see on Netflix and Amazon Prime. I would pay $10 or so a month for TCM if it were possible. Then there’s Acorn TV which will get you scads of Brit TV for $5 per month on Amazon. Plenty of entertainment to be had cheaply. But it’s finally nice weather so time to shut off the box and get the Tiger1050 on the road.

[Fresh Wind]

I fired the wire a little over 4 years ago. Don’t miss it a bit.

[MarMema]

We get the bare minimum until Feb when our contract expires. We bought the smart tv already though and will use it primarily for Amazon.

[heterosupremacist]

Good post, good news!

I know mothers who use a television as a babysitter, never realizing how badly their children are being indoctrinated/brainwashed.

I gave away all my TV sets (5) eight years ago, and my life is so much more fun living - I pity the couch potatoes...

[SamAdams76]

The new episodes of MST3K are on Netflix. And you can see just about any older show on YouTube. Is there really any reason to have cable at all?

In the not too distant future, nobody will be on cable.

[RayChuang88]

But are you really "cutting the cord"? You still need high-speed Internet access and alas, in many places the fastest provider IS the cable company. And Comcast is about to start the national rollout of DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit-speed Internet, too.

[ExSES]

6 Years cable/satellite free now... Have neighbors (and children) paying $150+/month for "TV Premium Services" (which they seldom watch!)

[Carthego delenda est]

This is great news!!!

[ex91B10]

“762,000”-the new “half-million”.

[JeepersFreepers]

I recently cut the cable and subscribed to Play Station Vue. I think that it is the best streaming service available. Works best with an Amazon Fire TV Stick. The fast forward function did not work well with a Roku but works great with the Amazon Fire TV Stick. The service has a DVR type function where your saved programs are stored in the cloud for later playback. It is possible to fast forward through commercials for saved programs. I get all the channels I want (about 45), including Fox News, for $30/mo.

[A Cyrenian]

What alternatives are there to cable or satellite?

I'm wanting to follow suit but I'm not sure what are the correct steps.

Can someone who has gone solely internet please explain what they are using to watch tv shows?

Are you able to watch live sports like college football & basketball?

[central_va]

Pay TV has to “unbundle” and go al la carte or die.

[Windflier]

The original cable TV model was commercial free, the theory being that the broadcasters were being paid by the consumers, rather than by advertisers.

The older, terrestrial broadcast business model was reversed, with the advertisers bearing the cost - therefore, the consumers paid nothing to watch the programs.

Somewhere along the way, the cable companies got greedy, and decided to accept commercial advertising, which violated the unspoken compact with the consumers. Now they were collecting from both sides of the table.

It used to irritate me to no end, that I was paying for programming, yet still had to sit through commercials.

[metmom]

We never had it.

I have relatives who do and whenever I visit I see enough TV to know that I don’t want cable.

There’s nothing more to watch on 100 channels than there was when there were three.