How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All

How to Cut the Cord and Ditch Cable Once and For All

The imminent merger between Time Warner Cable and Comcast heralds the start of a new era: one of even more expensive channel bundles, and even longer waits for service. It’s time to make like a rat and get the heck off this sinking ship of cable television. Here’s how you can keep watching your favorite shows without a cable box. It’s time to cut the cord.

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The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger

In case you missed it, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have officially confirmed their intentions to be come one gigantic conglomerate of suck. The internet, understandably, found this upsetting! Here are the funniest, angriest tweets about your new favorite monopoly:

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Time Warner Cable is offering a “limited number” free digital TV antennas to customers who are affec

Time Warner Cable is offering a "limited number" free digital TV antennas to customers who are affected by the company’s ongoing contractual spat with CBS. If you don’t get one. Best Buy will be knocking 20 bucks off the in-store price of an antenna in select stores.

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How to Beat Time Warner’s Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

How to Beat Time Warner's Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee

The only thing worse than paying out the tuchus for unreliable Time Warner Cable service is being forced pay $4 (NOW $6) per month to rent the cable modem necessary to use this crappy internet. Here’s how to buy your own modem and stick it to the man, no matter where you live. Because screw you, Time Warner.

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TWC Is Installing Another 1000 Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Manhattan

TWC Is Installing Another 1000 Free Wi-Fi Hotspots in Manhattan

We’re not always the biggest fans of Time Warner Cable; it’s unreliable, expensive, and they don’t seem to care two hoots about improving it. But we applaud the company’s plan to beef up the free Wi-Fi coverage it offers customers—especially in the congested airspace of New York. Beyond the 1700 hotspots already out there in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island, the company will have 1000 ready to go in Manhattan by mid-July. [TWC]

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The First Honest Cable Company Commercial

Cable companies are universally regarded as only slightly more popular than evil dictators, and a little less fashionable than certain strains of STDs. How do you fix something like that? Honesty! We’re awful; we’re unstoppable; you’ll hate us; deal with it. That’s something you could respect (and which would be applicable basically everywhere in the world but east Asia). Hell, I’d probably switch to this company if it were real. [YouTube] More »

How to Beat Time Warner’s Bullsh*t Modem Rental Fee [Fixcable]

We New Yorkers who are stuck with unreliable Time Warner Cable got a postcard in the mail yesterday informing us that we will now have to pay $4 per month to rent the cable modem necessary to use its crappy internet. Here’s how to buy your own modem and stick it to the man, no matter where you live. Because screw you, Time Warner. More »