Cut down on your TV expenses this year. Streaming offers variety, including live sports and news, all without the need for a contract.

These are the services that best compete with — or even outshine — cable.

Both streaming and cable provide you with tons of content, although there are some differences between them. But which is the better value in 2026?

This year proved to be yet another tough one for pay TV, as more people cut the cable cord. But it wasn't exactly kind to streaming services, either, as platforms dealt with subscriber declines, slumping ad revenue and stubborn losses while Netflix ...

As The Who once sang, "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss." It appears you can now replace "boss" with "cable TV" – based on a new survey of 8,000 broadband-connected U.S. households by consumer tech research company Parks Associates. Just 41% of ...

Jan 2026 CableTV.com survey of 1,000 U.S. adults: 92% streaming adoption, $30 avg streaming bill, $147 cable bill, with cost as the top cancellation driver. Streaming has become the standard way Americans get TV. The report finds that 92% use at least one ...

You don't need an expensive cable TV subscription to watch athletes chase gold in the final days of Milano Cortina 2026. Here's how to stream bobsledding, hockey, and the closing ceremony. My PCMag career began in 2013 as an intern. Now, I'm a senior ...