Everybody Wants to Sell Online TV Now
Tech giants from Amazon to Apple rush to compete with cable.
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U.S. cable television providers are among the most hated companies in the country. And yet everyone wants to become a cable company -- sort of.
Dish Network’s Sling TV and Sony’s PlayStation Vue have for the past 18 months been selling packages of TV channels as cable companies do, but sending them to people’s living rooms (or smartphones) via the web. Many more companies from the technology and television industries have ambitions to follow their lead.