Cable has negative value to me. I don’t get why anyone would want to pay to have a line serve them so many ads. And the cheap cable package is garbage on the content side, too.
I could never go back to cable and don’t understand what too me so long to cut the cable (yay COViD? For pushing me over that edge). But there are still a lot of people with a lot of inertia. I assume cable companies are just trying to hold onto their remaining customers long enough to build more profit into their internet offerings.
They may also be preying on their elderly customers finding it difficult to make the paradigm jump to streaming
That being said, streaming has a gap in local broadcast coverage that’s more easily filled with cable
not everyone can, or is aware they can use an antenna
local streaming like Hulu is expensive
sports streaming is expensive plus per sport
I rarely miss local broadcasts, with only a few exceptions such as presidential debates and the Super Bowl
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Cable? What year is this?
That’s why they have door to door salesman now, they’re getting desperate lol
Cable has negative value to me. I don’t get why anyone would want to pay to have a line serve them so many ads. And the cheap cable package is garbage on the content side, too.
I could never go back to cable and don’t understand what too me so long to cut the cable (yay COViD? For pushing me over that edge). But there are still a lot of people with a lot of inertia. I assume cable companies are just trying to hold onto their remaining customers long enough to build more profit into their internet offerings.
They may also be preying on their elderly customers finding it difficult to make the paradigm jump to streaming
That being said, streaming has a gap in local broadcast coverage that’s more easily filled with cable