Millions Of Cable Customers Could Lose Fox News This Week

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19. I quit cable when I realized I was paying to have garbage delivered to my house.

That was over a decade ago.

Quitting Comcast was amusing. They really didn't want me to go.

For a few months they kept a 35 cent credit on my balance, probably so they could claim I was still a customer and annoy the hell out of me calling about special offers. They didn't actually turn off the service either.

Eventually I went to their office and told them to quit calling me and threatened to remove their underground cable from my property, house to curb.

That got their attention. But the poor guy behind the counter was so worried about his retention numbers he marked us down as "moved."

Sure enough the Comcast sales people were knocking at our door a few weeks later offering special deals for new residents.

We've quit broadcast television as well.

Our television is a movie player, that's all it does. We have an $8.99 Netflix subscription which works fine on our inexpensive DSL internet connection, and we watch DVDs we rent at the neighborhood Redbox or buy in thrift stores. Sometimes we'll buy new DVDs (and now Blu-Rays) of movies we especially like.


As a few other cable cutters here on DU have noted, once you've quit traditional television for a while you don't go back.

I now find television advertising intolerable and I don't have any patience for television news an opinion. I'd much rather read my news and opinion.