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2014-11-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

Bundled Cable Deathwatch: Ratings Plunge, Darwin Looms

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Posted by badanov 2014-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I noticed last night when I expanded my select listing on Dish to all channels that CNN had disappeared with a notice "Withdrawn by Turner". Guess they're not getting their cut of the action now.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-11-09 08:45|| 2014-11-09 08:45|| Front Page Top

#2 It's negotiations time.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-09 09:02|| 2014-11-09 09:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Cut the cord ten years ago and haven't looked back. Noticed this morning though (I'm on firewatch duty at work today) that all the CNN channels are gone.

The beginning of the end? Maybe - but at this point, not even a la carte would bring us back. The only things I missed was History Channel, TLC, A&E, and Discovery - and since they're nothing but reality programming now, there's nothing on them I want to watch that I can't find on Hulu or Netflix for a total of $22/month for 100% of what I want to watch...as opposed to my old cable bill of $60/month for not even 1% of the programming.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2014-11-09 09:21|| 2014-11-09 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 I haven't had cable in ten years, and since cable companies insist on "bundling" I prolly won't for the rest of what's left of my life. My TV habits are to watch college football and college basketball until the Final Four, and then off goes the TV until the Hall of Fame game. If I could buy cable for the months of August through April, I would, but for "bundling"

Posted by badanov 2014-11-09 09:29|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-11-09 09:29|| Front Page Top

#5 I would love to have access to Velocity Channel, but I'm not going to sign up for a cable/dish package to get it. Haven't had one for ten years, and that was only for five years or so until Comcast aggravated me sufficiently. I don't watch sports, so there's basically nothing on TV (or Apple TV, or Hulu Plus) that I would want to watch. That includes Fox News, not to say the rest of the MSM. Netflix is pretty good, and Amazon Plus is occasionally useful.

Posted by KBK 2014-11-09 11:38|| 2014-11-09 11:38|| Front Page Top

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