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400,000 American Homes Have Dumped Pay TV This Year

redkemper writes "More than 400,000 American homes have cut the cord and ditched their cable and satellite pay-TV services since the start of 2012. The figure includes 169,000 subscribers shed by Time Warner Cable last quarter, marking the service provider's tenth consecutive quarter of customer losses. It also includes the 52,000 net subscribers DirecTV lost this past quarter, and 176,000 customers who left Comcast."

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  1. Dear Comcast by stox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't let the door knob get wedged up your ass on the way out.

    Sincerely,
    A Happy Ex-customer

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  2. Re:I did... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good analogy, but you don't take it far enough. In reality it's more like:

    "Cereal, hamburgers, frozen peas, bread, tampax, a sears catalog, a bible, a box of adult diapers, a carton of, and a bag of that peanut taffy halloween candy that NOBODY likes" - And you pledge to buy one every month for two years, after which the price goes up unless you sign a new pledge.

  3. Re:Irony by crakbone · · Score: 3, Funny

    Foresee? You obviously have not been anywhere near SYFY.

  4. Oblig, Star Trek Quote by Nethemas+the+Great · · Score: 5, Funny
    Lt. Cmdr. Data:

    That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year Two Thousand Forty.

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  5. Re:Oblig. by symbolset · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is why you always log out after slashdotting from Tom Cruise's house.

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  6. Re:Cable-Free Since 7/12 by camperdave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easiest habit I ever kicked.

    Cable free since July? You haven't even gone two days yet.

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  7. Re:I did... by dgatwood · · Score: 3, Funny

    a carton of, and a bag of that peanut taffy halloween candy that NOBODY likes

    I think you just the whole thing.

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  8. Re:Getting there... by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shut up. I'm old. I like to tell stories to make me think my life is meaningful.