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150 How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft

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msmash @ Slashdot · 02/20/2026 13:45 EDT

How Streaming Became Cable TV's Unlikely Life Raft

Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slowing that exodus by bundling the very apps that once threatened to replace them.

Charter added 44,000 net video subscribers in the fourth quarter of 2025, its first growth in that count since 2020, after integrating Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ directly into Spectrum cable packages -- a deal that grew out of a contentious 2023 contract dispute with Dis

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