Why spend money on even more subscriptions when you can freeload?

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but cable TV is continuing to bleed subscribers in record numbers as they flock to cheaper Internet-based options — cutting the cord, in other words, in favor of options like Netflix, Hulu and the like. Indeed, a new survey of a little more than 5,000 Americans by Chicago-based Waterstone Management Group found that consumers are increasingly being lured by the content available between choices like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime — and the simplicity of the subscriptions, as opposed to the fees and contracts that come with cable packages — to finally cut cable out of their lives entirely.

Research firm The Diffusion Group conducted user survey just before the streaming service upped its monthly subscriber cost.

Disney reported losses of more than $1 billion tied to its ownership of Hulu and BAMtech, which powers ESPN+ and other streaming services.

Internet video stream cord-cutting services started as cheap alternatives to cable television, but now they are duplicating cable's business models with similar costs.

Are you far away from your usual TV, as the Los Angeles Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII? You can still watch the game over the internet.

YouTube TV is expanding to 95 new U.S. markets, to cover 98 percent of households.

The Federal Communications Commission's new consumer-friendly net neutrality rules just took effect last week, and it looks like our first big lawsuit is already on the verge of being filed. That's...

HBO Now price, best shows, movies and how to get it

Online video-streaming service Hulu said it would soon allow its users to add CBS Corp's television network Showtime to their Hulu subscriptions.

If you didn't know, Netflix is kind of huge. So huge, in fact, that some new analysis suggests that if Netflix was a Nielsen-rated TV network, the service would, sometime within a year, attain a larger 24-hour audience than ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox...

Showtime is now offering an online subscription, allowing customers to watch its shows and movies without also getting cable. The subscription is being offered through a few different apps and...

Barring HDMI cable contortions, this is for people who only want to watch television on the smallest screens they own.

Local TV stations are plugging one of the last major holes in mobile video: streaming their news to phones and tablets. The move presents yet another challenge to cable and satellite providers.

Vice content, including original programming, will be available on Verizon's upcoming mobile service.

Many cord cutters were at first delighted when they heard about HBO's new stand-alone streaming service. Their joy turned to anger and resentment as they

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Cord-cutting will gain momentum over the next five years as people abandon traditional television for the growing choices and ease of use of online video streaming services.

Sen. Ed Markey of Massachussetts and Sen. Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut recently posed a handful of questions to the nation's cable and satellite providers about their set-top boxes -- Are they re...

The entertainment giant insists on selling cable shows in a bundle, despite losses at ESPN attributable to growing viewer preference for buying à la carte. Time Warner is benefiting from the trend, offering HBO separately. A business built on TV’s status quo looks like fantasy.

Fifty years ago, watching TV on public transportation felt like a sci-fi dream; now, I watch sci-fi on the train everyday. And that's progress, baby.

Sesame Street has become a front line in the war of streaming services that can't afford to lose adults between seasons of prestige dramas

Eight giant U.S. media companies lost a combined $46.2 billion in market capitalization in one day recently, following the news that even pay TV darling ESPN is losing subscribers

If you can take a break from pumpkin spice everything, there is some cool streaming content for September on the way.

For those who turn to Netflix for high profile films like the “Hunger Games” movies and “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” you’ll have to look somewhere else soon. The streaming service said its not renewing its deal with Epix in a blog post Sunday by chief content officer Ted Sarandos. The deal will close at the end of September, removing such hits as “World War Z” and the “Rocky” films from Netflix.

Fans of movies like The Hunger Games and World War Z are waking up to bad news this morning after Netflix revealed in a Sunday evening blog post that it will not renew its contract with Epix, the premium cable channel whose deal with Netflix put those movies (and plenty of others) on the streaming service. Of course, Netflix attempted to spin the news in the most positive light possible, saying it’s now in the position to offer so much high-quality original...

Hulu is finally joining competitors Amazon and Netflix in offering ad-free video streaming, albeit at an extra cost to ad-averse subscribers. As reported by The New York Times, the video streaming...

I stepped over from the dark side to see which premium streaming services are worth the monthly cost.

The BBC is planning to launch a subscription-based video streaming service in the United States. BBC director general Tony Hall said he wanted to "try out businesses that go direct to the public" to boost the income of BBC Worldwide. The new service, which could launch in 2016, will not affect agreements with other services such as Amazon and Hulu. One expert told BBC News the service would probably appeal to a "niche" audience.

There has recently been a shift in tone by major cable companies when they talk about their relationship with Netflix. Cable executives seem to have woken up to the fact that their licensing deals with Netflix bolster the catalog of a company that could do serious damage to their business. James Murdoch, who heads 21st Century Fox, said politely that his thinking on the subject was “evolving” — and not in Netflix’s favor.

AT&T, which just completed a $48.5 billion purchase of rival DirecTV, is now really worried that cable companies are merging too often and not competing against each other. Cable companies are coordinating and could end up acting as "a single national cable company," AT&T claimed.

Technological innovation is great for consumers. As technology gets more advanced, prices drop and products get better. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks prices for broad categories of goods over time. As this chart of prices for the last 18 years shows, prices have dropped dramatically in almost every tech sector. The drop in computer hardware is particularly steep. The one exception? Cable, satellite TV, and radio service.

With sports content and ESPN a primary reason for soaring cable bills -- and the rise in so-called "skinny bundles" for consumers looking to avoid these costs -- ESPN is understandably nervous. ESPN has lost 3.2 million viewers over the last year as consumers continue to scale back or cut their cable TV packages in the face of relentless price hikes. As such, the network has been engaging in "belt tightening measures" to counter the losses.

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Why do people hate cable companies? If you ask 100 different people you’ll get 100 different answers, but there will undoubtedly be a few common threads that run through the vast majority of them. Poor customer service will likely be somewhere near the top of the list. While just about every major cable company in the country has acknowledged customer care issues to some degree, progress in this area is painfully slow and cable companies are regularly at...