The move allows cable companies to cut off access to basic cable TV channels for customers who aren't paying for the service. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you’re watching digital basic cable channels without a set-top box or CableCard on your TV ...

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 ...

After the Federal Communications Commission took one step forward, it has now taken a disappointing step back. The agency made great progress when it approved net neutrality rules in February, ...

But in the process of absorbing Warner Bros., Netflix passed on the basic-cable side of Warner Bros. Discovery, leaving the company’s portfolio of basic-cable platforms -- at least 25 by my count on ...

Basic cable networks have been facing the same audience fragmentation that broadcast networks have been facing since the 1980s. In 2009, ten basic cable networks reported percent double-digit audience ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. TheFCC adopted a Report and Order Oct. 10, 2012 that amends its rules to allow cable TV operators ...

Streaming services snatched their biggest piece of the TV pie ever in 2018. According to FX’s annual report on the number of scripted originals on TV, the number of streaming shows has surpassed the ...

See which other non-premium networks got love from the critics. This week’s question: What’s is the best current basic cable network? Why? It’s not all prestige dramas, either, which is incredible and ...

MCTV, an lTV and phone provider in Stark and Wayne counties, will bring Guardians TV to viewers for the 2025-26 MLB season. Guardians fans with MCTV’s residential basic cable TV service will have ...

ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” has been rightly praised as broadcast TV’s great new Emmy hope, a critically acclaimed comedy that helped the traditional networks avoid completely getting shut out in the ...