Cord Cutting: The Promise TV Viewers Keep On Breaking

[T]he cable companies are gaining broadband customers faster than they are losing video subscribers. Comcast picked up 1.3 million internet subscribers even as it lost 300,000 in TV. Time Warner had a terrible year on the video side, shedding 825,000 as it suffered from the CBS blackout for an extended period. But it too gained on the data side, grabbing 200,000 video customers. Those two are trying to merge, of course. Whether their combination of failure and success helps or hurts their case before regulators ultimately remains a wildcard. Because they currently don’t compete, it’s likely that concerns over cable’s growing dominance in broadband (where it currently has a 58% share that’s growing) will play a bigger role in the mind of watchdogs. - Mark Rogowsky, Forbes

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