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Last week HBO and CBS both announced plans to offer stand-alone streaming services on the web. It’s a major turn-about for the pay cable service, HBO (owned by Time Warner), which has long maintained they are “not TV.” This move will allow viewers to cut the cord to their cable TV subscriptions and purchase HBO programming alone. And even CBS has jumped into the streaming fold, announcing a live-streaming and on-demand subscription service. But since buying a cable subscription has long been the barrier to entry for premium networks such as HBO, does this move signal a coming mass exodus of content moving online, and the eventual decline of cable? On this week’s Mediatwits podcast we’ll discuss these moves with Peter Kafka from Re/Code, David Lieberman from Deadline Hollywood, and Dan Rayburn from StreamingMedia.com. We’ll also have Mediatwits regulars Alex Leo from Newsweek and Andrew Lih from American University. PBS MediaShift’s Mark Glaser will host with Fannie Cohen producing. Running your own business requires focus. So does parenting. Mediatwits podcast sponsor NextSpace created a place where parents could give their best quality of attention to both. Co-working space and child care space under one roof! Learn more at nextspace.us/nextkids