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We have cable TV still, mostly to get the CBC station (CBUT) out of Vancouver, B.C. Canada and MotorTrend.
We could always get CBC out of Windsor, ON. First OTA, then cable all through the 90s, but at some point in the late 90s/early 00s Comcast decided to drop CBC in SE Michigan!
I have a Tivo to record OTA channels, and it has a skip ahead button which forwards 30 seconds at a time. Have had that device for at least a decade. It has lifetime Tivo service, but that only applies to the actual Tivo device.
...and many of them never turn on cable news stations.
CNN's ratings at horrendous, & MSNBC's are not great either. Fox does well.
Cable tv is on life support, and doesn't have near the political impact it once had.
I cut the cable chord ~10 years ago, & other than live sports, I don't miss it. Most debates are ive streamed.
The only persons I know that still have cable TV are the elderly, so cable TV is literally slowly dying off. Most others use some form of internet services to access the hundreds of available video platforms.
I missed cable at first but when it started hitting the near hundred buck a month cost I finally thought about it and junked it. By then I was getting most of my Entertainment and News from streaming. But there were a few things i liked and had a habit of watching everyday at certain times. Habits can be hard to break but once you do you realize why the hell did it take me so long. That extra hundred bucks a month is much nicer staying in my pocket then a show or two i miss each day and can often stream a day or two later for free.
I am a retiree from one of the larger cable TV companies, but they have evolved to become a top provider of high speed internet to homes and businesses. Sure, they still have millions of cable TV subscribers, but the majority of cord-cutters (of cable TV) keep a high speed internet connection. The key is to be a really good provider of high speed internet for the cable TV company to survive.
True. That is what I have done. I ditched cable tv, but kept theri internet connection.
Its getting to the price now, that I'm exploring other companies, & types of internet....phone company provided, or satellite.
I still have the cable cord but only for Internet, not for TV.
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