Cable Loses Nearly Three Million Subscribers to Streaming

Big Hollywood ^ | 4/4/2012 | John Nolte

[servo1969]

The rise of streaming television is something I've been covering rather obsessively on my Daily Call Sheet for going on a year now. Not because I have any kind of inside information or data, but because if you connect the dots of the hundreds of various news stories that have been written about the phenomenon, you can see that something seismic is happening.

Bundled cable is evil, and through this evil we are forced to not only pay for dozens and sometimes hundreds of channels we never watch, but we're also forced to pay for and subsidize channels that offend our values: Sundance, MSNBC, PBS, Current TV, OWN... This is un-Amercan. It's welfare and affirmative action combined. A number of these channels would collapse without the evil of bundled cable fees because you can't pay Rachel Maddow's salary on Sham-wow commercials alone. Worse still, these cable packages are absurdly expensive -- especially for those of us old enough to remember when the cost of television was the price of a pair or rabbit ears.

So along comes Netflix and Hulu with the idea of providing -- for less than $10 a month -- a streaming service that allows you to watch what you want to watch when you want to watch it. Better still, there are no commercials. And anyone who has recently watched "Celebrity Apprentice" or anything on the Discovery Channel knows that the length and frequency of commercial interruptions have gotten obscenely out of hand.

[Eepsy]

That’s hilarious. The only reason Comcast is still getting $18 a month from us is EWTN. If they dropped it from the line-up we’d cut the cord completely....

[SengirV]

We watch a whole lot more PBS now. We feel like we are reconnecting with the nations roots with all the British shows, both old and new, that we are watching nowas well.

[steve86]

I use a GoogleTV box with the living room TV. Will check tomorrow to see if EWTN streams properly on it. I hadn’t checked that yet because EWTN is bundled with our cable also. And the cable is bundled with our rent...

[Rightly Biased]

you prove my point

I’m not against those channels but you just proved my point you would drop CATV

many others would go thier congress critters or their religious lobby and the CATV companies would lose and be REQUIRED to carry those channels so they just do it to avoid the hassel.