
Live TV streaming services were designed to disrupt the cable monopoly. And for a while, it looked like the plan was working.
Cable companies, no longer blessed with monopoly power, are losing millions of customers every year. But the cord-cutting alternatives that were supposed to save us have been raising prices steadily, and today the price of a live TV streaming service is nearly as high as one of those old cable bills.
Take YouTube TV, for example. At its launch in 2017, Google's live TV streaming service cost a mere $35 a month...
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