These days, some of our old basic cable channels seem like they are just filling space -- clinging to life and biding their time until the basic business is finally overtaken by streaming and ...

Scanning a list of basic cable channels is like rummaging through an attic. What is that musty aroma? MTV, VH-1, TV Land, USA Network, E!, TBS? It seems so. But when does it come time to clean out the ...

Americans are paying luxury prices for basic entertainment, and a big chunk of that money is going to channels they never ...

If you have basic cable, you're paying $5.54 per month for ESPN — even if you never watch it. Here are monthly costs for ESPN and a dozen other... Here's how the cable business works: Cable companies ...

Consumers have shirked cable for a while — and now the content owners don't even want their own channels. On Thursday, Comcast President Mike Cavanaugh said he has commissioned a study to look into ...

The long-running lament among TV viewers is that you get 500 channels but there is never anything to watch. But what was once a bit of hyperbole is now mostly true — there is almost nothing new to ...

Back in 2020, my Variety colleague Kate Aurthur and I wrote a cover story on the death of cable — complete with striking art of a coaxial cord shaped like a skull. The headline read, “R.I.P. Cable TV: ...

Comcast announced a plan Wednesday to spin off most of its cable television networks into a separate publicly traded company. The new company will include the USA Network, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, ...

Over the course of a recent week, there was not one listing for a newly created episode of scripted television on over 100 channels reviewed by MarketWatch. The long-running lament among TV viewers is ...