Streaming, once thought to be the antidote to cable, is starting to look more and more like the good old-fashioned cable bundle. As streaming has gotten more expensive and confusing over the years, ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif.—DirecTV said it is breaking the traditional cable bundle by launching three new Genre Packs and two new Mini-Pack Add-ons. These new streaming options continue the company’s push ...

While introducing this column back in the fall of 2014, I wrote about how the mighty cable TV paywall was beginning to crack. Although the cable bundle wasn’t in grave danger at the time, new ...

Comcast announced that it plans to offer a new streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+, which sounds a lot like the cable channels packages that consumers left cable TV to get away from.

Remember when streaming was supposed to let us watch whatever we want, whenever we want, for a sliver of the cost of cable? Well, so much for that. In recent years, streaming has gotten confusing and ...

Both companies are blurring the line between traditional pay TV channels and streaming services, in that paying for the former will entitle you to some of the latter, but they’re doing so in different ...

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Before the advent of streaming, the music industry was a bundle-based business focused on selling compact discs (CDs). Hit songs were packaged with a bunch of mediocre ones, filling an 80-minute CD ...

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