[Sacajaweau]

Cable was a cheap monopoly. Now it's too expensive...

Food vs cable...guess what loses...

[jeffc]

I remember when we finally got cable in my neighborhood where I grew up. It took the City Council over a year to "negotiate" a contract with the cable provider. Then when we finally got service, it was horrible. Very expensive, few channels, took forever to get hooked up, and too bad if you needed service after install. But the city profited quite handsomely from it all.

I also remember there were very commercials. Compared to the number of commercials we have to pay to watch today, I wonder how they made any money back in the 80's.

[iowamark]

The total number of subscribers to TV services provided by cable, satellite and telco operators fell by 119,000 in the third quarter, compared with a gain of 346,000 in the third quarter of 2009, according to SNL Kagan, a research company.

Although television services offered by telecoms and satellite providers added subscribers over the period, cable operators were hard hit, with subscriber numbers falling by 741,000 – the largest decline in 30 years...

Online TV services are stepping up their efforts to reach new viewers and become profitable: Hulu, which is owned by News Corp, Walt Disney and NBC Universal, has slashed the cost of its online subscription service by 20 per cent to $7.99 per month and offers a vast array of film and TV programming...

[nascarnation]

I think this is the Obama economy more than anything else.

I get internet, phone, and 200+ chan tv and DVR for 110/month.

To me it’s not a bad deal.

[Vor Lady]

Interesting ping.

[MinuteGal]

Cable is going to have to cut prices and offer better viewer selection in its package deals. The monthly fee is exorbitant and keeps going up.

The bad part about folks doing the cable-cutting is that they'll be dependent on the regular network alphabet poops for their news.....and they won't be getting the only (so-called) fair and balanced channel.

Leni

[Frantzie]

“...one of the pay-television industry’s biggest fears...”

Liberals and the elites plus Islam’s biggest fear is the idiots will turn off the brainwashing. TV is for idiots. All of it supports Obama and Prince Al Waleed Bin Talil’s Fox News is only marginally better.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Interesting. Bump for later reading. I do hope FReepers will add to info relative to their experiences with something other than cable. Cable is too expensive.

[JennysCool]

Ping!

[Hulka]

Add the reason for dropping cable the following: I have cable in my temp apartment in CA. Have 200 channels. . . .about a third are home shopping channels, a third are spanish language channels, and about a dozen or so are spanish language home shopping networks.

All because I wanted Internet and FNC, and the only way to get that combination was to “buy” hundreds of channels I don't watch and can't understand.

I will drop cable the first chance I get.

[bray]

Anybody know how this works?

[donna]

Aside from the gay agenda content, it might also have something to do with the fact the TV screen is half full of signs, logos, and moving promos that are so distracting they ruin any good show.

[Bean Counter]

We have DirecTV, and when they recently made a minor billing error, in atonement they gave us 3 free months of Showtime.

Why does anyone pay for Showtime? The only decent thing they have produced in recent memory was four seasons of “The Tudors” and we waited until they came out on Netflix.

Such a vast wasteland.

[rockrr]

I haven’t had cable in years - probably never will again. Going on my first year without the boob-tube at all. hard at first but now I hardly miss it at all.