The rise of streaming services like Netflix, Max and Disney+ was supposed to kill off cable. But something funny is happening on the way to the future: Streaming is starting to look a lot more like ...

The popular media observer parlor game of guessing where the cable bundle will “bottom out” seemingly becomes grimmer by the year. For awhile, many pundits guessed that the cable bundle, which ...

Editor’s Note: A version of this article first appeared in the “Reliable Sources” newsletter. Sign up for the daily digest chronicling the evolving media landscape here. Netflix is rebuilding the ...

Streaming companies are turning to bundling as a strategy to retain subscribers amid the industry’s post-pandemic slump. The revival of bundling is also beginning to disrupt sports TV. People tired of ...

A funny thing happened in recent weeks, as the media industry wrung its hands over the long-anticipated death of the lucrative cable-TV bundle: Hundreds of thousands of people turned to a different ...

While introducing this column back in the fall of 2014, I wrote about how the mighty cable TV paywall was beginning to crack. Although the cable bundle wasn’t in grave danger at the time, new ...

There’s no sugarcoating just how bad things have gotten for cable companies: During just the first six months of 2024, a whopping 4 million U.S. homes exited the pay TV bundle, according to research ...

The streaming service is creating a series of niche packages to lure more subscribers away from cable providers.