I got so tired of paying for cable and satellite TV that I cut the cords, meaning I cancelled subscriptions.
That's awesome!  Do you use any streaming services since canceling cable?
Yes, I do have Netflix, for video-on-demand specialization and Hulu to watch regular tv shows I might miss.
I've heard a lot of people are cutting the cord.  I wonder how cable companies are trying to fight it?
I don't see evidence of it, and they should, since the majority of households have more than one tv set.
Was cost the only reason you ended up canceling?
Cord-cutting
In broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord-cutters, cancelling their subscriptions to multichannel subscription television services available over cable or satellite, dropping pay television channels or reducing the number of hours of subscription TV viewed in response to competition from rival media available over the Internet such as Amazon Prime, Crunchyroll, Hulu, Netflix, Philo, Sling TV and YouTube Premium. This Internet content is either free or significantly cheaper than the same content provided via cable.
Nowadays, online streaming makes it possible to watch everything from live news and sports to classic movies to modern TV favorites in their own time, on any device. Some of online streaming service providers are Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Video and YouTube. Over-the-top subscription services that mirrored cable and TV Everywhere services began emerging in the mid-2010s. In 2015, Dish Network and Sony respectively launched Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, cable-style online and mobile streaming services priced at lower monthly rates than packages offered by