Not exact matches
Before the 2015 rules were enacted,
Netflix (nflx) fought with
cable providers for years
over intentional streaming slowdowns and extra fees for connecting with its customers.
More than 81 million subscribers pay
Netflix $ 8 to $ 12 a month, and slowly but unmistakably these consumers are giving up
cable for internet television:
Over the last five years,
cable has lost 6.7 million subscribers; more than a quarter of millennials (70 percent of whom use streaming services) report having never subscribed to
cable in their lives.
And in fairness, Darden CEO Gene Lee said it's people competing against the «new necessities today, whether smartphones, whether your
cable bill, your
Netflix bill, those all have increased significantly
over the years and I think that people are making choices.»
For instance, the Wall Street Journal reported
over the weekend that
Netflix is in talks with several U.S.
cable television companies to make its streaming video service available through their set - top boxes.
While Starz was a huge part of viewing on
Netflix several years ago because it was some of the only mainstream content
Netflix offered,
over the years
Netflix has spent more and more licensing great TV shows from all four broadcast networks and many
cable networks, and we have licensed 1st run movies from Relativity, MGM, Paramount, Lionsgate and others.