More Cable Companies Take TV Off Menu

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A growing group of small cable-TV providers are realizing that both they and their customers can live without expensive TV channels.

Of the 100 million homes in the US that subscribe to pay TV, about 14% are served by smaller companies that have a million or fewer customers. In some cases, they serve fewer than 100. Faced with rising programming costs, some of those companies have pulled the plug on TV service altogether, preferring to simply focus on Internet and phone service. Others, meanwhile, are dropping major groups of channels to manage their costs.


More Cable Companies Take TV Off Menu