Cable's Lost Its Appeal By Jim Cramer About this article: Can you believe this downfall of cable? It's amazing to me that you could have a company like Comcast (get a load of that awful earnings report) or Time Warner just drip down every day even though there is no real sign that the dish or Verizon or AT&T is making that much progress in taking share. More important, there is real evidence that cable's still getting more and more out of each customer. But it has never mattered. Cable was meant to be a monopoly. It is why we were always willing to own the stocks. Because as long as it was a monopoly, as long as they were the dominating basic service suppliers of the future, you could own them. Now we have enough competition that they have to pay up for programming. Now we have enough in the ether to watch -- as Pali Research... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200. More Stories From RealMoney Durable Goods Up Move Down the Tech Food Chain Jobless Claims Still High Bulls' Tenacity Is the Big Question Mark Should You Buy It? Pharmaceutical Product Development Bad News Trumps All Support for Banks Holds, For Now Bummer, Yields Are on the Rise Money on the Line Makes a Big Difference Structured Products: Unsafe at Any Price MORE STORIES FROM REALMONEY

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