Also Cable Companies continue to encrypt local channels that used to be on unencrypted clear QAM channels. So that HDTV or DVR that has a digital tuner that you purchased can't get a signal without adding yet another cable box (or cablecard) to your monthly bill for each and every device.

Then customers decide to try an Over-The-Air (OTA) antenna and realize that the Cable Co's have been degrading their local channels signal for years in favor of pay channels and shopping channels.

Next, a customer may get a Roku or Chromecast and realize the choice greater and quality better streaming from the Internet than via local cable and the customer has much better control over the costs.

Also "cord cutters" are making a lot of noise on social networks about what they are doing and how well it works. Couple that with how much "love" most people have for their cable company and well decline should be inevitable as long as the alternatives work and they do.

They cut my bill by 20% if I subscribe to TV service. The cable box sits still in its shipping box; its only function is to cut my bill.

It was a "one year, one time deal" but when I called to cancel TV service the rep told me I can just sign up for it again every year.

Guess they are scamming the TV advertisers.

Should have done the work myself, but he was already there and seemed at first to be ok.

When you dread any kind of service call you have to have with these people (like ATT taking over a month and multiple, multiple calls, to change a calling plan), you know they are doing something wrong.

If my municipality were to roll their own, I'd sign up in a second. Even at higher price, although I'd expect exactly the opposite.

Google Fiber (which, I gather from stories I've heard from Austin, has its own installation woes) almost made it here. But then Google was like, "Let's ride bikes!"

Meh

What? Snapchat as an entertainment option? I thought it was a messaging app.