Aaron Gates

Editor

Aaron Gates has 10 years of editing experience, with 7 of those years dedicated to product review editing and consumer-focused content. He’s supplemented his writing studies degree from Utah Valley University with an ACES certification in accurate, audience-focused editing, and he works with writers at CableTV.com to help produce engaging content and trustworthy copy through conscious editing. Most evenings you’ll find Aaron thriving in Seattle, geeking out with his husband over the latest horror films, and impatiently waiting for the next season of X-Men ’97 to drop.

2025 On-Demand Streaming Customer Satisfaction Awards: Max Lives Up to Its Catchphrase

by Olivia Bono | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News

We asked 10,757 people about their streaming preferences. Read on to see how every major on-demand streaming service stacks up.

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2025 TV Customer Satisfaction Awards: Is Cable Back From the Dead? Customers See Life in Providers Like Xfinity and Verizon Fios

by Logan Jones | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News

We asked nearly 6,000 cable, satellite, and fiber TV customers to rate their TV providers. Verizon Fios again emerged as the provider with the highest overall satisfaction rating (79%) and earned the highest ratings on 19 of 20 questions. Read on to see what’s so great about Verizon Fios—and how your TV provider fared.

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2025 Internet Customer Satisfaction Awards: Cable ISPs Improve, But Fiber, 5G Still Lead

by Eric Chiu | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Industry News

For the CableTV.com 2025 Internet Customer Satisfaction Survey, we talked to more than 8,800 internet users to find the best ISPs across the nation.

8 Best Christmas TV Episodes

by Bill Frost | Nov 27, 2024 | Entertainment

TV Christmas episodes are better than Christmas movies in at least one aspect: They’re shorter—do you have time to watch a two-hour film during the holiday season? Ho-ho-nope. Here are some great modern-classic TV Christmas episodes to squeeze in this yuletide season, including a couple that may spike your familial anxiety. (You’ve been warned.)

A collage of images from Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary, The Agency, Family Guy: Gift of the White Guy, and Dear Santa, shows and movies covered in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 10 TV and Movie Picks (November 25–December 1)

by Randy Harward | Nov 25, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (The Agency, The Madness), holiday specials (Family Guy, Saturday Night Live), holiday movies (Dear Santa, Nutcrackers), a doc(k) about yacht rock, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the VOD streaming premiere of the ultra-gory holiday slasher flick, Terrifier 3. Let’s hit the couch!

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How To Watch Pittsburgh vs. Ohio State Men’s Basketball

by Taylor Kujawa | Nov 25, 2024 | Entertainment

Get ready for a Black Friday showdown! Ohio State men’s basketball hosts Pittsburgh on November 29 in a Peacock-exclusive matchup you won’t want to miss.

A collage of new Christmas movies, including Our Little Secret, Red One, and Hot Frosty.

Get Cozy with 25 New Christmas Movies This Holiday Season

by Bill Frost | Nov 21, 2024 | Entertainment

CableTV.com has covered the avalanche of new Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movies premiering this season, but what’s happening outside of the Christmas Cable Industrial Complex? We’ve unwrapped fresh holiday (and holiday-adjacent) movies you won’t find on Hallmark or Lifetime.

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A collage of images from The Sex Lives of College Girls, Street Trash, Interior Chinatown, and A Man on the Inside—shows and movies featured in CableTV.com's What to Watch This Week column for November 18.

What to Watch This Week: Relax With Our Top 9 TV and Movie Picks (November 18–24)

by Randy Harward | Nov 18, 2024 | Entertainment

This week’s What To Watch picks include series premieres (Interior Chinatown, A Man on the Inside), returning series (Based on a True Story, The Sex Lives of College Girls), Ken Burns’ da Vinci doc, Obama on Our Oceans, a now-slim fat-joke king (Jim Gaffigan: Skinny), an avenging angel (Rita), and a remade body-horror cult classic (Street Trash). Get to the couch!

How to Lower My Cable Bill

by Dave Schafer and Logan Jones | Nov 18, 2024 | Featured, TV

CableTV.com recommends 9 ways lower your TV bill without sacrificing your favorite shows. Read on to find out how to lower your cable bill.

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