Just about everybody hates their cable company and there’s legitimate reasons why — nobody likes sitting around all day waiting for the cable guy to show up or paying for hundreds of channels they never watch.

So it may sound like sympathy for the devil…but there’s actually a case to be made for why you should feel bad for your cable company.

Tony Wible, director of media research at Janney Montgomery Scott, says even with ever rising cable bills – another source of customer consternation — the industry as we know it may not survive. The cable companies are victims of “massive pressure” on two fronts: the skyrocketing price of sports programming and broadcast networks asking “exorbitant prices” for content they used to provide for free.

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Content prices are rising, in general, 10% per year and “if they go to where networks want them to be, you’d have to see a massive increase in you cable

If not now, when? That's the question many economists and investors have been asking about Fed policy since the central bank decided Wednesday not to taper its $85 billion worth of monthly asset purchases.

In its statement, the Fed said that "tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labor market." So it decided to wait for "more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases."

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Neil Irwin, columnist at the Washington Post and author of the book The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire, says "the earliest" the Fed could taper would be in October, at its next meeting, but it could wait until its "December meeting or even after that."

"The Fed wants to make clear they're not on a preset time schedule," says Irwin. "They're looking at the data, at what's hanging over the U.S.