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AZSkiffyGeek

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5. I work for a cable/internet company
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 07:45 PM
Oct 2021

This is an unspoken truth. Cable companies are losing money on cable tv. People cut the cord, so viewership goes down and the networks make less money from advertising. The networks then raise their rates to the cable companies, who pass the increase on to their customers. Which leads to more people cutting the cord.
My company said they weren’t going to prioritize Tv about 6 years ago, and we’ve been pushing Internet since. We’ve dropped some big networks over what we considered unreasonable rate hikes, and have had extended outages with a couple others. The only network that really has clout anymore is ESPN.

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