Two more providers gives up on traditional cable TV service

[Bruce]

Sparklight and Frontier are joining WOW and Fios as no longer offering new Traditional TV service, Broadband only.

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[Mr Tony]

Our local Telco (Consolidated formerly HickoryTech) hasn't offered TV to new subs for almost a year now. They partnered with Directv stream. They still "support" the Tv side but in 2 weeks our apartment complex is switching from TV to DTV stream (internet and cable are included in our rent...they are upgrading us to fibre too)
From what I heard Consolidated won't be supporting their Tv side after this year
On their website their "featured streaming TV partners" list DTV stream, YTTV, Philo and Fubo

 

[Mr Tony]

Another provider giving up on cable is Mid Rivers out in Montana
They are giving their customers a 2 year notice that they are discontinuing traditional cable as of end of year this year (the letter they sent to customers was in late 2021)

https://midrivers.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/CATVLetter12012021.pdf