{"id":41656,"date":"2020-07-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2644665"},"modified":"2020-07-09T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T18:00:00","slug":"nine-great-things-that-cord-cutting-brought-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/09\/nine-great-things-that-cord-cutting-brought-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine great things that cord-cutting brought us"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those who’ve been trying to escape cable or satellite TV, the last week brought a lot of doom and gloom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, YouTube TV announced its biggest price hike ever, from $50 per month to $65 per month. FuboTV followed suit, raising prices from $55 per month to $60 per month. Sling TV has also hinted at price hikes to come, saying it will lock in today’s rates until August 2021<\/a>, but only for those who subscribe by August 1. Disney is rumored to be raising prices for ESPN+ as well<\/a>, from $5 per month to $6 per month.<\/p>\n

All this of course prompted the usual wave of hot takes about how the cord-cutting dream is dead<\/a>. “We were promised a la carte TV<\/a>,” a chorus of jaded pundits said, “but instead we got a system that looks a lot like cable<\/a>.” (In truth, the expectation of a la carte cable channels has always been unrealistic, but that’s another story<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Me? I’m not feeling quite so glum. While there’s no sugarcoating the price hikes, cord-cutting only counts as a failed experiment if you ignore all of the good it’s done—and is still doing—for the state of television. In the interest of looking on the bright side, here are some examples of how cord-cutting has made TV meaningfully better.<\/p>\n