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Andy Meek
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Some things never change. The hatred of Mondays. The joy of Christmas. And how, with inexorable regularity, the cable industry -- in the face of customer anger and cord-cutting that keeps growing and growing with no end in sight -- will always continue to do what it does best and greet the future by ... (drumroll) ... raising your cable bill yet again.
2020 is going to see the launch of several new TV streaming services, including NBC's streamer called Peacock, as well as HBO Max and a new service called Quibi all in the coming months. The desire among customers to subscribe to TV services a la carte rather than pay for one cable package (with tons of channels they never watch) is what the general public mostly wants these days, as they pick must-have services like Netflix and Disney+ and then add on from there. There is absolutely no point pretending otherwise if you're a cable operator. Nevertheless, many of you are about to be hit with yet another price hike on your monthly cable bill, possibly in a matter of days.
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Your pay TV bill is going up yet again this month, because the industry is out of ideas originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 10:08:38 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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