pulling the plug

Comcast executives say they are not entirely pulling the plug on their cable channel business, noting that the new company will have resources to buy additional channels or other properties.

The companies’ lawyers bridled at the suggestion that they were in the business of gambling but, in such a case, maybe they would have little choice but to bet that the politics of pulling the plug would be too painful for Sir Keir Starmer’s government.

But he does not yet appear to be pulling the plug on the coalition.

Pulling the plug while things are still working is one final act of rebellion.

Some small cable companies across the country have cited increased programming costs in pulling the plug on television entirely and limiting offerings to broadband and telephone service.