Comments on: Cutting Cable: Companies Losing Customers

In Tough Economy, Pay TV Operators Face Stiff Competition From The Internet

[c-mo6]

Cable companies need to get with the program and let customers just pay for the channels they want for a better rate. I have basic cable with a 100 channels but I only watch 8 or 9 of them at most, who wants to keep payin for all those other channels?

[vcofreason]

I can''t wait until we can get rid of cable. The only reason that I keep the c.r.a.p is because we have no other alternatives for internet in the rural area we live. Our internet price "conveniently" goes up $20 if we drop cable TV. It''s going to be a very happy day when we call them and say SEE YA and there will be nothing the crooks can do to keep us.

I''ve waited for this day when they would start losing customers and come down off their high horse. They act like they don''t care when you say you''ll leave. Well, maybe now they will. Awesome!

[wl7bzh]

Several cable tv scams that tend to turn people off.

1. Pop-up ads during tv movies

2. 20 to 30 year old movies repeatedly shown under the scam of "classics"

3. Disproportionate number of ads shown at the end of the hour or during the climax of the movie. The end of the programs are referred to as "teasers" by the industry.

4. Ungodly amount of "paid programming" channels that cable should be paying the viewer to watch.

5. Fluff channels, such as comedy cent*ral which repeatedly show the same movies or specials.

6. And the one that ticks everyone off is the steadily increasing prices.


Kinda like the stunt Yahooo and your home town newspaper are pulling-Charging the customer for out of date material as a vehicle for selling ad space to business.

By the way-Yahooo, cable tv, and your home town news paper appear to have run into the law of diminishing returns.

But the thing that really irks me is the industries did it out of greed and want my sympathy!?

[luvcomments]

"Time Warner Cable, the nation''''s second-largest cable operator, lost 119,000 basic video customers in the fourth quarter"
It''s not the economy; it''s the content of basic. Re-runs of re-runs or infomercial after infomercial. Nothing to watch unless you''re a mindless idiot. Why would anyone pay for that garbage. It''s an insult that they even show it.

[mrjoshcan]

All across the US, millions of Americans are paying profoundly, trying to use e-mail protocol such as Microsoft''s Outlook Express. These entrepreneurs are actually receiving electronic mailings from clients everywhere, all over the world. Because scrupulous Agency is actually intercepting and blocking e-mails, free communication over the Internet is not possible, like it was also not possible for people like Porter McConnell to make any money on the Internet. "We do not think that Microsoft is totally the culprit here," says a current executive at Gigglygoo, Incoporated, a maker of highly sophisticated Copyright integralware, who''s company filed for Bankruptcy during the 2004-2008 technology bubble. Also stating " scrupulous Agency is not allowing the free communications in order to nourish a business culture via e-mail, and they are intercepting electronic mail we believe we are getting from all over the world." In that sense, e-mail when it is working is worthless, and also the fact that computers in which, besides fundamentally the majority average American at least don''t understand, are hurting economic hopes for many families like the McConnell''s from everyplace. [e-mail]

[kevboom]

"Time Warner Cable, the nation''s second-largest cable operator, lost 119,000 basic video customers in the fourth quarter"

It''s not the economy Time Warner, it''s your lousy customer service and that monthly $120 bill just for cable and internet. Get a clue.

[hunterdon6]

I didn''t realize that I was saving $85 a month on tv bills by having an antenna on the roof. Thats $1020 a year in savings. Who can afford that?

[smt451d]

As people cut back, the cable companies will be allowed to raise rates to offset the decrease in income. Therefore, more people will drop cable and the companies will raise rates again, until the last person cuts the cable and government allows former cable providers to bill individuals who aren''t using the service. Sort of like GM getting paid to close plants and produce nothing.