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Could YouTube TV Mean the End of Cable?

The $35-a-month live-television package is the latest to try to capture the attention of cord-cutters.
Source: AP / Reed Saxon

Cable television officially peaked in the year 2000. As the dot-com bubble got ready to burst, more than 68 million American households subscribed to cable TV, a number that has declined by millions each year. That number now stands at and will likely continue to fall as people grow less interested in paying hundreds of dollars a month for hundreds of TV channels they don’t watch. The paradigm

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