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You Can Now Add Showtime to Your Hulu Subscription for $9. Not Bad!

The a la carte TV options are expanding. If you’re a Hulu subscriber paying $8 per month, you can add Showtime for another $9 now, which is cheaper than Showtime’s recently announced $11 standalone option. Obviously this isn’t an earth-shattering deal, but it’s also not bad, especially if like me, you’re a Hulu subscriber already.…

The Comcast Merger’s Dead — But Our Internet Will Still Be Garbage

Hurray for the internet, the Comcast-Time Warner Cable deal is dead. Right? We dodged a megacorporation-sized bullet, but the internet is just as broken today as it was yesterday. The death of the deal is being rightly heralded as a good thing for consumers. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler puts it succinctly: Comcast and…

Comcast Is Reportedly Abandoning Its Time Warner Acquisition Plans

Comcast will abandon its $45 billion bid to acquire Time Warner Cable, according to a Bloomberg report. Unnamed sources say we might hear the news as soon as Friday. CNBC agrees. NYT agrees. This is very good news, if true! A Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger would be terrible for consumers and business alike. The combined…

How to Beat TWC and Comcast’s Bullshit Modem Rental Fees 

The only thing worse than paying out the tuchus for unreliable internet from Time Warner Cable and Comcast is being forced pay a monthly rental fee for a modem you need to access that crappy internet. Happy New Year! The fees on both TWC and Comcast are going up yet again. Here’s how to buy…

Comcast Internal Memo: That Service Rep From Hell Was Following Orders

Remember that agonizing phone call Ryan Block recorded last week, when a Comcast rep spent 20+ minutes trying to will Block not to cancel his account? Even a Comcast executive thought the call was “painful;” but also that the rep was doing just what they’d asked him to do. In an internal memo posted to…

How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All

The imminent merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast heralds the start of a new era: one of even more expensive channel bundles, and even longer waits for service. It’s time to make like a rat and get the heck off this sinking ship of cable television. Here’s how you can keep watching your favorite…

The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

In case you missed it, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have officially confirmed their intentions to be come one gigantic conglomerate of suck. The internet, understandably, found this upsetting! Here are the funniest, angriest tweets about your new favorite monopoly:

Time Warner Cable is offering a “limited number” free digital TV antennas to customers who are affected by the company’s ongoing contractual spat with CBS. If you don’t get one. Best Buy will be knocking 20 bucks off the in-store price of an antenna in select stores.

TWC Is Installing Another 1000 Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Manhattan

We’re not always the biggest fans of Time Warner Cable; it’s unreliable, expensive, and they don’t seem to care two hoots about improving it. But we applaud the company’s plan to beef up the free Wi-Fi coverage it offers customers—especially in the congested airspace of New York. Beyond the 1700 hotspots already out there in…

How Much Do You Pay for Cable?

No matter where in our great nation you live, there’s a good chance you’re getting raw deal from your cable operator. Or maybe you’ve just convinced yourself of as much. Today, we’re gonna find out the truth—or we’re going to try, anyway. Mission: Find out how much everybody actually pays their cable company. How: On…

TWC plans to recuperate losses by making basic Internet and cable packages crappier and more expensive. Awesome!

The First Honest Cable Company Commercial

Cable companies are universally regarded as only slightly more popular than evil dictators, and a little less fashionable than certain strains of STDs. How do you fix something like that? Honesty! We’re awful; we’re unstoppable; you’ll hate us; deal with it. That’s something you could respect (and which would be applicable basically everywhere in the…

NimbleTV Lets You Stream Your Cable Anywhere Without a Box (In New York Only for Now)

If you pay for cable or satellite you should be able to watch it anywhere on any device. You paid for it! That’s already possible by using a Slingbox, but NimbleTV wants to let you do it without a box. Disruption. Instead, the service records your pay TV for you remotely and then beams it…

Man’s Comcast Box Floods Home with Cockroaches

Man, those Greedy Cable Companies have some nerve, am I right? Always showing up late, charging us for channels we don’t want, under-delivering on broadband speeds. But at least they’re not infesting our homes with bugs! Oh, wait. The Beacon-News relays the horrifying story of Chicagoan Antonio Munoz, who had new cable service installed by…

Ever Wonder How Cable TV Travels from Space to Your House?

You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner’s chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled]

Massive Time Warner Outage Hits the US

Time Warner internet services are taking a dump all over the country today, with users in New York, LA, San Francisco, Kansas City, Dallas, Ohio, and other cities and regions without internet. Many areas are reporting that service is back to normal, but we’ve put in a call to Time Warner to see exactly what…

Underground Fires and Fiber-Optic Cables Don’t Mix

Earlier this month an underground fire knocked out cable for a big chunk of the East Village in NYC. Remember that whole #fixcable thing from this summer? Well this is what it looks like when they literally fix cable. Basically, what happened on October 6th was a steam pipe sprang a leak, which shorted out…

The Proposed Cable a la Carte Plans Aren’t at all for Your Benefit

The talk earlier this week of cable companies proposing a la carte cable plans made it sound like they actually wanted to do something for their customers. Well as IT World explains, the cable companies still reek of greed. https://gizmodo.com/are-cable-companies-secretly-planning-an-a-la-carte-o-5844513 According to Kevin Fogarty, the ulterior motive behind this a la carte push is to…

Intrepid Masturbating Cable Installer Serviced Woman’s Living Room with a Smile

Cable installers are dicks. They keep you on house arrest for unreasonable blocks of your day; they break appointments on a whim; they show up at your home to smile and masturbate in your living room; they install the wr—hold on. https://gizmodo.com/the-cable-customers-bill-of-rights-5832196 A 24-year-old woman from Florida claims that Comcast cable installer Shane Wheatley—who had…

Yeah, We’re in NY Mag’s Approval Matrix

Is it the exclusive province of media geeks to get excited over making it into New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix? I dunno, but we’re so amped that we almost capsized the Gizmodo Yacht while jumping for joy. The esteemed editors at NY Mag were stoked about our #fixcable series. So were we! Irony alert: I’m…