[the_watcher]

Sports and broadband speed. Many cable companies have pricing setups that make paying for just high-speed internet nearly as expensive as a slower package + TV (and the TV channels aren't impacted by broadband speed issues). Now, this is generally only true in the first year of a contract (and then you're bumped to truly insane rates for TV services), but if you're willing to shop around and have multiple people who might be streaming at once, it's a better deal that way.

I say all of this as a cord cutter myself. It took a while to figure out, but I was able to cobble together essentially every channel or show through legal means using Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Playstation Vue, HBONow and an OTA antennae. The costs savings only really worked out once my roommates and I all realized that each of us were paying for our own Netflix and HBONow subscription, but even without that, it's nearly the same price as our previous cable package (intro rate), plus has the luxury of being able to cancel each individual service should we decide to make any kind of change without having to go through the hell of Comcast customer service.