Congratulations, you cut the cable cord. Now the cable

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Less than a decade ago, streamers launched as purveyors of their own content. Now, they’re bringing other channels and streamers onto their platforms, transforming into something that looks very much like the cable services that fans quit in the first place.

There’s not a lot in the historical record about the subject of television broadcasting in the sixth century B.C., but when Aesop wrote his fable about how people should be careful what they wished for, since they might not foresee all the consequences, I wonder whether he’d been thinking about getting rid of his cable TV service.

Over the past decade or so, sports fans have been cutting their cords with glee, thrilled to be free of the shackles of a business that made them pay for services they never watched.

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