If it weren’t for Fox News, FX, and the Comedy Channel, I would drop it too. Netflix takes care of all movie needs very nicely.
You can only be out of touch with your customers for so long.
If you misread and insult them daily, they may stop watching.
Not surprising.
Folks in a financial pinch cut out the non essentials.
The ONLY reason I still have cable is because of the Food Network and Breaking Bad/Mad Men. Even my trusty favorite, Turner Classic Movies, has sucked lately. I’ve almost completely stopped watching FOX News too, except for when I can catch Glenn Beck or Red Eye on.
This doesn’t surprise me. I have way more than I use in terms of a cable package and am about to cut way back. And my cable company—like pretty much every cable company—finds ways to up my bill by about $20 or $30 per month to rent equipment that is necessary for the service I am buying! Cable companies have been really tone deaf in this economy if they think they can keep screwing people like that and keep them as customers.
...we got the dish because I liked the Sopranos...now that they’re long gone, I’m wondering why I’m paying so much every month.
I’m inches away from dumping my dish, after 15 years of service. Over a hundred channels and hardly anything I care to watch. I wish there was a channel that ran exclusively old shows, like “The Fugitive,” “Rawhide,” “Sea Hunt,” and whatnot.
Gee. I don’t know. Maybe it’s because of the absolute JUNK I get charged for that I don’t watch because it’s so bad or maybe it’s the COST of the JUNK or maybe it’s BOTH!
Saturday Night Live is doing market research now?
If it weren’t for live sports I’d drop cable completely. I find most of the channels not just useless but offensive. I can rent TV shows and movies. If they ever go to sports over the internet, the cable is history.
People are starting to take Franzie seriously now.
I dropped cable over a year ago and went to off-air TV. With the new digital subchannels, I have over 20 channels available, including a retro channel and a couple of movie channels.
I don’t miss cable (or the $70/mo charge) one tiny little bit.
If it wasn’t for my wife and son I would have dropped cable tv service a LONG time ago.
If it were not tied to my broadband, I would drop cable TV.
When I watch TV, I’m mostly watching a DVD from Netflix or instantly through the computer. We’re about halfway through the first season (1966) of Dark Shadows.
I wonder how many of these are foreclosed homes? Banks aren’t going to be paying for cable.
You mean we’re not the only family on the planet that doesn’t have cable? I’ll have to let my kids know they are sadly misinformed when they tell me this.
People are tired of paying to be lied to and corrupted.
Lot cheaper than cable, and broadcast HDTV is better than cable.
They're virtually all liberals, most of them voting, no doubt, for hope and change.
Now they have to be hoping the drop-off in business will leave at least some change in their pockets for the public corner laundromats looming in their wives' futures.
Leni