Tag archive: Cutting Cable

A new study by Horowitz Associates shows that large numbers of young adults (18-34) have used mobile devices and the Internet to watch TV online and some are considering abandoning their cable or satellite TV service for the web. The study asked more than 800 broadband users if they watched TV in alternative ways and found that 7 percent of users are considering canceling their cable or satellite subscriptions, and 19 percent more would… Read More

At the beginning of September, I walked outside the house with a hatchet in hand and chopped the single line of coax that kept my household wired into the universe. I severed the cable TV. Not literally, of course. That would have been pretty stupid – especially considering that our house kept the cable Internet connection as part of Plan B: Watch only what we could retrieve from the Internet. One connection, one bill. More literally, all three… Read More