When streaming stops being the cheap option

Cutting the cord was supposed to save money. For many households, it still does, but the math is getting murkier. The average cable bill runs about $147 a month. Subscribe to four or five streaming services at premium tiers and you're already in the same neighborhood. Add a live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, Hulu Live, and their competitors run $75 to $95 a month on their own, and you may have quietly passed the cable bill. The tipping point, for most households, arrives somewhere around the third or fourth streaming subscription. The accumulation is the problem.