The bundle was also good for the cable providers, which steadily added subscribers: At the peak of traditional cable in 2012, more than 100 million Americans paid for the bundle. That era is gone.

The traditional cable bundle, which has long provided the underpinning of the television business, survived the dispute between Walt Disney Co. and Charter Communications. On to fight another day.

In an ironic twist, cable TV and Internet provider Comcast has announced that it, too, will sell a bundle of video-streaming services for a discounted price. The announcement comes as Comcast has ...

Comcast announced that it plans to offer a new streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+, which sounds a lot like the cable channels packages that consumers left cable TV to get away from.

The pay-TV bundle will likely lose even more customers in the coming years as Disney's plan to protect its TV business cannibalizes cable.