The traditional pay-TV universe of 300-plus channels is going to shrink dramatically over the next 10 years, Hulu CEO Randy Freer predicted — with maybe a dozen cable TV networks still standing. “In the next decade, it’s not going to be about scheduled [linear] networks,” said Freer, speaking at the BI Ignition conference Tuesday in New York City. The winners will be cable networks “that have been able to build a brand” that resonates with consumers, but most of the TV nets that are around today probably won’t exist.

Eight million people are expected to cut the cord in 2018, according to research firm eMarketer, in part because of advanced streaming services, and in part because of high monthly bills. Yet another growing alternative to cable and satellite is as old as television itself: over-the-air antennas. Tom McGlynn runs Mr. Free HDTV Man, one of several TV antenna installation companies in the Twin Cities. He says he’s getting so many requests, he can’t keep up.

Among other rate hikes, Spectrum customers will see the monthly fee for set-top boxes rise in November to $7.50 from $6.99.

Don't be surprised to see flat-screens instead of flatware on wedding registries.

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

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...

One of Apple TV's most-desired features finally makes its way to the diminutive set-top box.

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

This week at the WSJD Live event in Southern California, HBO CEO Richard Plepler took the stage to criticize broadband providers like Comcast, Charter, Time Warner Cable, and AT&T (which owns DirecTV) for not jumping at the chance to bundle HBO Now with their Internet services. The network launched HBO Now, a standalone streaming service that costs $15 per month, earlier this year. Initially, you could only get the service...

The first global NFL webcast seemed to go off without a hitch on Sunday morning, as Yahoo! and CBS put together a fine telecast of what turned out to be one of the best games of the NFL season. FTW watched the game, tested the strengths and weaknesses of the broadcast format and compiled this list of the pros and cons for the NFL’s grand Internet experiment.

CBS is seeking out new life for its All Access streaming service by making it the only way to watch an upcoming Star Trek TV series. Beyond a special “preview broadcast” of the first episode on CBS’s regular television channel, all episodes of the new Star Trek will appear exclusively on CBS All Access in the United States. (Internationally, CBS says it will distribute the show for “television and multiple platforms around the world.”)

The broad trend in the television industry is that viewers are moving away from linear, ad-supported programming toward on demand, a la carte viewing they can pay for directly. The response at Time Warner has been to begin offering premium networks like HBO to customers without a cable subscription, allowing anyone with an internet connection to pay for access. On today's earnings call, the company said it also plans to try and increase the value...

Fox's "Minority Report" has fizzled in the ratings. So has ABC's nighttime soap "Blood & Oil," as well as NBC's crime drama "The Player" and its sitcom "Truth Be Told." Not so long ago, all of these shows would likely have been canceled. But all four are still on the schedule, as is every other network show that debuted this fall. This year, the TV season has stretched into November without a single new title consigned to the rubbish heap — something that...

If you're waiting to catch up on Gotham or Arrow, the wait could get even longer. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told analysts this week that past seasons of DC Comics television shows could be slow to arrive on Hulu and Netflix. Why? Well, the chief executive said that the company would give preference to cable customers first, making those older seasons available elsewhere several years after they air. In case you didn't know, Time Warner owns DC Comics.

Major TV networks are so scared of Netflix they are actually starting to show fewer ads. Companies like Time Warner, Fox, and Viacom have begun to reverse the trend of trying to shove as many ads in your face as possible. The reason? They want to lure back younger viewers, who are increasingly living in a cordless future full of Netflix and Hulu, according to Bloomberg. Time Warner, in particular, is a useful case study.

Comcast's live streaming TV service has launched in the Boston and Chicago areas, with plans to bring it to Comcast's entire cable territory by early next year. We asked Comcast today if Stream TV usage will count against the 300GB data plans imposed in certain parts of Comcast's territory. "No, Stream is an IP cable service delivered over our managed network to the home," a Comcast spokesperson replied.

Want to cut the cable cord for good? Here are your best choices this Black Friday and over the entire holiday season.

25 Shows to binge-watch this Thanksgiving weekend.

The average monthly cable television bill hit a record $99 this year after rising 8% a year since 2010, but the outlook for next year is looking better for consumers. Comcast, the largest U.S. cable operator, (CMCSA) announced that the rate for its most popular plan is going up 3.9% next year. And while there's a mix of increases for some of its other plans, the charge for adding premium channel HBO is going down from $22 a month to only $15.

Bill Murray's “A Very Murray Christmas” starts streaming on Netflix today. It’s an hour-long throwback to what a lot of television once was: an old fashioned variety show. The story doesn’t matter much; what does is the sentiment. Murray sings, he dances, he laments, and he drinks. He’s joined by Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, George Clooney, and Miley Cyrus, among others. And while the songs haven’t changed all that much since the ’50s, the...

Why usage-based billing is a threat to the open internet, and what can be done to stop it. By Susan Crawford.

The Web? E-Mail? All those old-fashioned Internet program are nothing compared to how Netflix dominates Internet traffic. That's an awful lot of Longmire, Firefly, and House of Cards.

Hulu Original series 11.22.63 is a thriller in which high school English teacher Jake Epping (James Franco) travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy — but his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, falling in love and the past itself, which doesn’t want to be changed. Also starring Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, T.R. Knight, Cherry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Lucy Fry, George MacKay and Daniel Webber.

The share of Americans with broadband at home has plateaued: It now stands at 67%, down slightly from 70% in 2013. At the same time, more Americans rely only on their smartphones for online access.

The internet hasn’t come to kill television. It’s radically improving it.

Sling TV, Dish Network’s OTT-TV service for cord-cutters, has made a couple of tweaks to its bundled device offers in recent weeks.

Dish Network’s online skinny TV bundle, Sling TV, has added ESPN3 to its channel lineup. Sling TV which was announced at last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, used this year’s CES session to unveil some new features.

While appearing at TCA this morning to talk about his new original series Love, one TV critic noted Netflix also likes to revive older TV franchises, and wondered if Apatow wanted to revive any of his – specifically Freaks and Geeks, the comedy-drama created by Paul Feig and Apatow that aired very briefly on NBC during the 1999-2000 TV season, and still has a cult following, making many Gone Too Soon-ish lists including Time magazine’s 100 Greatest...

Cable industry lobbyists who represent big names like Comcast and Time Warner Cable are furious right now, which obviously means Washington is cooking something up that stands to benefit consumers rather than help big cable line cable companies' pockets.

Netflix and producers Warner Bros. Television on Friday confirmed that the streaming service is, indeed, reviving the beloved series. Set to return are stars Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Kelly Bishop, Sean Gunn and Keiko Agena. Original producers Amy Sherman-Palladino, Daniel Palladino and production company Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions are all on board for the revival.

Netflix's hit series Orange Is the New Black is getting a fifth, sixth, and seventh season. The streaming company announced this morning that the show got a massive three-year renewal this morning, keeping it on air through at least 2019. Showrunner Jenji Kohan is staying onboard as part of the deal.

This week, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that you can get your cable through devices besides your company's cable box. The ruling means that instead of having to rent the box from, say, Time Warner or ATT Uverse, you will be able to add that subscription onto your Apple TV, Fire TV, Android TV and Roku boxes. You still have to have a cable subscription, but the massive rental fees will be a thing of the past. What does that really mean?

The online ads sound too good to be true. "Say goodbye to your cable bills and get your TV for free," boasts an advertisement for the Free TV Box in Canada. A U.S. company promotes its TV box as the "cable killer."

Netflix's upcoming anime series, Perfect Bones, will be the first original program from the streaming service to air in 190 countries simultaneously, the company announced today.

A new report in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the FCC is "probing" whether or not cable operators have taken steps to intentionally harm the rise of streaming video. Specifically, the FCC is investigating claims that cable operators cajole broadcasters into keeping content from streaming service competitors. Dish Network effectively accused Charter of this back in December, when it claimed Charter was trying to "sabotage"...