A recent report from Nielsen found in 2019 the average television household had 179.5 channels receivable, a decline from 194.1 channels from a similar survey in 2014. This is a result of cord cutting ...

The cable apologists have been out in full force these last few weeks, which is as good a sign as any that the bloated TV bundle is in trouble. Yes, the unbundlers will say, but I want to focus my ...

LOS ANGELES—Cable television’s lucrative strategy of “bundling”—charging customers for a package of channels rather than allowing them to pay only for the ones they want—came under attack here Tuesday ...

Cable companies have started to figure out a way to stay in the TV game: Reselling streaming services. Credit...Justin Rentería Supported by By Benjamin Mullin A funny thing happened in recent weeks, ...

Instead of paying cable-TV providers for a bundle of channels that nobody watches, Verizon wants to reward content owners for the viewers who tune in to each individual station, a plan that should ...

The cable company blocked CBS-owned channels as the two sides fight over fees: Time Warner says CBS wants too much money for its programming, and it's trying to keep customers' bills down, while CBS ...

In an ironic twist, cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has announced that it, too, will sell a bundle of video-streaming services for a discounted price. The announcement comes as Comcast has been ...

Cable viewers have long complained about paying ever-higher bills for hundreds of channels they don’t want to watch. Now, in a twist, some cable companies are beginning to agree. Verizon and ...

The New York Times had a great article on Sunday about how cable TV companies are reacting to the FCC's demand that consumers should be able to buy just the cable channels they want instead of today's ...

John Green, author of “The Fault in Our Stars” and other top-selling young adult novels, took to Twitter last week with a complaint about his cable package: “Imagine you were paying $20 a month for ...

The good news is that some day soon “triple play” will mean something only to baseball fans. These days, though, cable TV customers probably still know it better as the industry’s torture device.