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Will you be cutting the (cable) cord this year?

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About a month ago, I read this arti­cle in the Huff­in­g­ton Post about some 200 000 Cana­dian house­holds pos­si­bly can­celling their cable this year. This has led me to reex­am­ine my own rela­tion­ship with a cer­tain Blue Company.

After my mom can­celled CNN, along went a bunch of other chan­nels like CP24, TLC, and a few oth­ers. Appar­ently, Bell groups chan­nels in “pack­ages”, so you can’t just order/cancel 1 chan­nel. So what I’m now left with is quite pathetic!

I hon­estly don’t know why cable com­pa­nies offer soo many num­ber of chan­nels, when they lit­er­ally show the same thing: CTV (I miss CP24!), crappy talk shows mid-day, and a bad movie of the week about killer wasps in the evening. :( I wish that they would offer bet­ter qual­ity pro­gram­ming as opposed to quan­tity of chan­nels with noth­ing on.

Sadly enough, I’m held hostage by PVR and the Galaxie music chan­nels. The major­ity of my enter­tain­ment can be found online.

What about your house­hold, do you have cable, and if so, any plans to cut the cord in ’12?

102 Responses to “Will you be cutting the (cable) cord this year?”

  1. learn violin

    Hey, you used to write excel­lent, but the last sev­eral posts have been kinda bor­ing� I miss your great writ­ings. Past few posts are just a lit­tle out of track! come on!

  2. frank

    We cut the cord recently and watch locals via antenna in true HD ‚much bet­ter pic­ture than cable. We also have Net­flix ‚Nhl Cen­tre Ice and use an apple tv ‚which is awe­some i might add. For our phone we use Majic Jack Plus which allows us to run our phone right off our router. I guess Rogers lost about 110.00 per month . Bet­ter in our pock­ets than theirs. Any­one pay­ing for cable the way it is now is throw­ing money out the window!!!!

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