It's particularly frustrating now that you can watch Yankee games online, but only if you have a cable subscription.

If Hutchison aspires to be anything, it is a media company that peddles phones instead of cable subscriptions.

Colbert alone is worth the price of a cable subscription.

After all, such a deal could help them boost revenue, especially when TV viewers seem to be canceling their cable subscriptions left and right.

"Consumers are inclined to cut back on basic cable subscriptions at about the time their homes are foreclosed by the bank."

Without the ability to watch sports events live and a limited number of studios supporting, this thing doesn't even come close to replacing a cable subscription.

Other regional channels are accessible via cable subscription, direct-broadcast satellite services, or internet-based television.

Playing the games is free with a digital cable subscription, but Buzztime hopes to offer other content for which it would charge.

But that might also mean customers could decide to give up cable subscriptions and switch to the Internet for all their entertainment needs.

Beyond that, much of the rest of Time Warner's business, like cable subscriptions and movie sales, are historically not hurt in recessions.