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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Is cable TV going downhill?
« on: January 07, 2013, 03:36:54 PM »
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bewkes-on-cord-cutters-2012-11
The CEO of Time Warner brushes off those who have cancelled their cable TV service. I find it comical that anyone would go to the CEO of the largest cable company in the country to get his take on whether services like Hulu are a threat. Of course he's going to deny that they're a threat!
What I find interesting, though, is that he compares people who spend $5 at Starbucks everyday to cable TV. The problem, as I see it, is that when you go to Starbucks you generally get what you want (and nothing more). With cable and satellite TV, you get what you want, and a lot of what you don't want. Now if you don't get what you want at Starbucks, there are dozens of other coffee places you can go to. With cable and satellite, you don't really have a choice. If I could get the shows I like on demand from another provider without paying for the "extras," I'd sign up in a heartbeat!
Oh, and the reason most don't go with the "cheap" cable package is because they don't have any channels worth watching. I don't know about you, but the channels I want are always in one of the top two "tiers." The cheap plan for Cox Cable, for example, is almost exclusively public access, local, and shopping channels. Sure, it also includes WGN and TBS, but who still watches those channels?
The CEO of Time Warner brushes off those who have cancelled their cable TV service. I find it comical that anyone would go to the CEO of the largest cable company in the country to get his take on whether services like Hulu are a threat. Of course he's going to deny that they're a threat!
What I find interesting, though, is that he compares people who spend $5 at Starbucks everyday to cable TV. The problem, as I see it, is that when you go to Starbucks you generally get what you want (and nothing more). With cable and satellite TV, you get what you want, and a lot of what you don't want. Now if you don't get what you want at Starbucks, there are dozens of other coffee places you can go to. With cable and satellite, you don't really have a choice. If I could get the shows I like on demand from another provider without paying for the "extras," I'd sign up in a heartbeat!
Oh, and the reason most don't go with the "cheap" cable package is because they don't have any channels worth watching. I don't know about you, but the channels I want are always in one of the top two "tiers." The cheap plan for Cox Cable, for example, is almost exclusively public access, local, and shopping channels. Sure, it also includes WGN and TBS, but who still watches those channels?
I kind of liked it when I was a kid, but after hearing it every 10 minutes as an adult on pop radio, it's somehow lost it's luster.