The popular media observer parlor game of guessing where the cable bundle will “bottom out” seemingly becomes grimmer by the year. For awhile, many pundits guessed that the cable bundle, which ...
Streaming companies are turning to bundling as a strategy to retain subscribers amid the industry’s post-pandemic slump. The revival of bundling is also beginning to disrupt sports TV. People tired of ...
Fans are quickly moving into the next phase of streaming. They’re no longer evaluating whether they can leave cable. Instead, ...
The rise of streaming services like Netflix, Max and Disney+ was supposed to kill off cable. But something funny is happening on the way to the future: Streaming is starting to look a lot more like ...
Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Netflix is rebuilding the ...
There’s no sugarcoating just how bad things have gotten for cable companies: During just the first six months of 2024, a whopping 4 million U.S. homes exited the pay TV bundle, according to research ...
Streaming, once thought to be the antidote to cable, is starting to look more and more like the good old-fashioned cable bundle. As streaming has gotten more expensive and confusing over the years, ...
If you speak to people in and around the television industry, most will tell you that the cable bundle is in the nursing home stage of life. Still alive, but certainly not in its prime. Perhaps then, ...
On 30 Rock, Liz Lemon’s terrible sometime-boyfriend Dennis Duffy, a.k.a. “The Beeper King,” insisted the pager business would boom again because “technology’s cyclical.” Every idea Dennis espoused was ...