[Ipg-smz] "More than 1 million consumers canceled their cable-TV or satellite subscriptions in the past quarter" (WSJ)

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On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 15:10 -0800, Brian Santo wrote:
> Speaking as someone who cut the cord 15 years ago, pay TV packages
> are still not a bad deal for people who watch a lot of TV, and that's
> why I think there are still tens of millions of payTV subscribers,
> and will be for some time. The industry may be losing subs, but for
> the short-term future, they are subs the industry can afford to
> lose. 

Agreed.

The cable business is a mess. Cable tech--yes even at Comcast--is fine.
I had dinner a few weeks back with the engineer in charge of their set-
top boxes. He _knows_ his stuff and he tells me so does his team. He
wouldn't talk about the business side, and, for the reasons Brian
mentioned, I can understand why.

Steven 
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