When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you’re watching digital basic cable channels without a set-top box or CableCard on your TV ...

Scanning a list of basic cable channels is like rummaging through an attic. What is that musty aroma? MTV, VH-1, TV Land, USA Network, E!, TBS? It seems so. But when does it come time to clean out the ...

Basic cable networks have been facing the same audience fragmentation that broadcast networks have been facing since the 1980s. In 2009, ten basic cable networks reported percent double-digit audience ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The FCC has released new rules that will allow cable operators to encrypt all their basic ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Basic cable has long been the domain of low-rent fare such as “The Real World” and “Silk Stalkings,” or kids’ stuff like “SpongeBob SquarePants.” For the award-winning shows, you ...

MCTV, an lTV and phone provider in Stark and Wayne counties, will bring Guardians TV to viewers for the 2025-26 MLB season. Guardians fans with MCTV’s residential basic cable TV service will have ...

As studios prioritize streaming platforms, unscripted shows increasingly provide a rare return on investment for basic cable. By Mikey O'Connell The twilight of basic cable’s scripted era has arrived.

Even at TNT, eyebrows were raised Thursday morning when the multigenerational saga “Into the West” topped all of last year’s television shows with 16 Emmy nominations. In addition, TNT’s series “The ...

Streaming services snatched their biggest piece of the TV pie ever in 2018. According to FX’s annual report on the number of scripted originals on TV, the number of streaming shows has surpassed the ...

You know that cable television is in trouble when at least two widely distributed basic cable channels are each relying basically on one show apiece. It is a state of ridiculousness. That happens to ...

See which other non-premium networks got love from the critics. This week’s question: What’s is the best current basic cable network? Why? It’s not all prestige dramas, either, which is incredible and ...

ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” has been rightly praised as broadcast TV’s great new Emmy hope, a critically acclaimed comedy that helped the traditional networks avoid completely getting shut out in the ...