{"id":428,"date":"2004-08-10T09:28:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T09:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2004-08-10T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T09:28:31","slug":"cable_tv_charter_loses_subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Cable TV &#8211; Charter loses subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Cable TV monopoly, Charter Communications reported higher-than-expected subscriber losses for the second quarter, <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/0,,SB109205777699686372,00.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us_business\">according to Peter Grant<\/a>.<br \/>\nI recently thought about adding direct tv or charter cable to our home &#8211; largely for the Olympics (we don&#8217;t watch a whole lot of TV).  I found the direct tv customer service folks to be excellent, while my charter interactions were not great (lots of rather hard upselling).  I really only wanted local channels, espn and msnbc.    They don&#8217;t evidently unbundle.  Bummer that unlike other parts of the world, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000584.php\">we won&#8217;t be watching live Olympic<\/a> internet streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Cable TV monopoly, Charter Communications reported higher-than-expected subscriber losses for the second quarter, according to Peter Grant. I recently thought about adding direct tv or charter cable to our home &#8211; largely for the Olympics (we don&#8217;t watch a whole lot of TV). I found the direct tv customer service folks to be excellent, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}