This was the week that cable TV died: A 30-pack of basic-cable channels across three companies lost more than $15 billion in value in 39 hours.

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1. The stock market took a big dive Monday, a bunch of companies lost a lot of money. This doesn’t mean anything.

2. So cable TV prices are coming down then, right? Right?? RIGHT?!?

3. This is like when you hear of some celebrity dying in their 90s and you go, “Wait, he was still alive??”

4. What’s cable tv?

5. Tell me more about how we should continue to pay to watch ads for shit we will never use.

6. Don’t take away my MEtv!
   Actually I wish I could convince my GF to just go with an antenna there’s plenty to watch over the air.

7. All they had to do was keep it cheap for the old timers, lol “the bundle”, so they could watch usa and tnt 

8. Let’s bring back the CableACE awards

9. Thats why it gets bundled with internet, cellphone and home security

10. I’m surprised it lasted this long to be honest.

11. So many people in my area cut cable in the past few years. They’re all streaming and relying on Internet sites for news/entertainment.

12. How much have they paid to lobbyists, special interests, etc in the last 20 years? Plus the government gives them money and they waste it.

13. So when is the premium streaming services bundle coming to my phone for a low low price of a used car payment?

14. We stopped cable in 2010ish. Never looked back.

15. Does it seem weird to anyone else that 30 channels are three companies?

16. Hope zaslav gets peeled by a potato peeler and dunked in lemon juice

17. A lot of cable guys are gonna get laid off.

18. Who new making every TV show a fake reality show would eventually backfire