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

[Dana Blankenhorn]

I wrote a book for the National Cable Television Association on two-way
cable and how it worked, back in 96. Interactive Age was supposed to be
about two-way cable, but then I started doing their Daily about Internet
stuff and they changed to that...went under three months later. #Oops

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 6:27 PM sjvn <sjvn at vna1.com> wrote:

> 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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