One of my biggest gripes with Time Warner and cable TV in general, is paying a lot of money for so many channels I never watch. And they keep raising their prices. A few other companies have been looking at different business models and the new Sling TV by Dish Network has apparently finally been launched. And it's streaming over the Internet. While they do not offer local channels (which most of us can get OTA away) and for now really only have a handful of channels, I like their format of letting the customer choose what channels they want to some extent. So for a no contract fee of about $20 a month you get such channels as: ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, TBS, CNN (and a few lessor channels) and soon AMC, BBC America, BBC World News, and Sundance TV)
So far it's not clear to me if you can watch a season of old programs on demand, or how I would watch on one of my Samsung Smart TV's. I think you can get it using a Roku stick. While it's not a perfect combination of programs for me, ( I watch some Fox news shows and business programs, CNBC, and USA network), I like the new competition and it's not bad for some cord cutters. Here's a recent story about Sling TV.
2/9/2015: Sling TV now available in the US, and it's adding AMC to the channel lineup
Suddenly Dish's internet TV service is about way more than ESPN
"... Dish's Sling TV service is now available to all consumers in the United States. You can sign up for a week-long trial to decide if internet TV is worth the $20. But there's better news: the company has announced that will be adding AMC to the core channel lineup. ...".
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/9/8004187/sling-tv-now-available-adds-amc