Everyone I know sans maybe one person has cable/satellite. So I don't know what future you're living in.
The problem to me is they aren't showing replays that I feel a lot of people want to see on air, so you can't watch at a bar/restaurant. This to me is the major problem with sports on streaming. People like to watch at bars, but bars often don't have streaming devices on hand or a staff that wants to deal with it.
The only people I know with cable/satellite TV subscriptions are 50+ years old who grew up in the US. All my immigrant elders use IPTV boxes now to get their international channels.
I just turned 50 and I have cable TV for the first time now since I lived with my parents in the 80's. Maybe along with your eyesight and your hearing when you turn 50 you start to lose that part of your mental reasoning that tells you cable TV is a bad idea.
Seriously though, I got tired of switching to different streaming providers when one of them suddenly lost access to some specific content that I was interested in. Cable now is just another streaming content provider.
I can think of tons of people I know with cable and the only person I can think of with a landline is my grandma, and my stepdad’s extremely rural vacation cabin
Not true, more than half of the US has cable/satellite subscriptions (~61%). It has shrunk but it is still the majority. I don't buy the argument that "cord cutting" is necessarily less expensive when you add up all the streaming services, especially given streaming services are currently low balling to bring in customers.
In any case, no one has addressed the problem of sports bars/bars being unable to service customers on streaming exclusive events.
AIUI, these things typically described as “if you have cable TV” apply to most cable, satellite, and internet multichannel video programming distributors (so, yes, cable/satellite, but also Youtube TV and similar online services.)
My mom lives with me, and she likes cable, so we added it for relatively little to our existing Verizon package. It's nice to be able to log into streaming sites like the NBC Olympics.
