Disney and Charter’s historic agreement has introduced a new kind of cable bundle, and it could be the thing that saves cable TV... or destroys it. Disney and Charter’s historic agreement has ...

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 ...

While introducing this column back in the fall of 2014, I wrote about how the mighty cable TV paywall was beginning to crack. Although the cable bundle wasn’t in grave danger at the time, new ...

Google is the latest company to look into the streaming television business, but, just like other tech companies attempting to move into the future of TV, it will have to do so on the terms of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

A funny thing happened in recent weeks, as the media industry wrung its hands over the long-anticipated death of the lucrative cable-TV bundle: Hundreds of thousands of people turned to a different ...

The cable TV industry's old powerhouses aren't all that relevant in the arena, but consumers are willing to pay for the right live package. It was supposed to be the cable television industry's answer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When YouTube TV launched in 2017, it was like manna from heaven for disgruntled cable subscribers. At just $35 per month, Google’s video empire launched a streaming service that invited a large number ...