Fees like these are why people utterly despise the cable industry
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3.4 million households have ditched cable since 2012
Cord-cutting has gone from a whispered industry nightmare to a very present reality, with over a million people killing their traditional pay TV subscriptions last …
Shocker: Cable companies had yet another terrible quarter thanks to cord-cutting
2017 was a bad year for the pay TV industry. Cable and satellite providers saw subscribers leave in record numbers, and despite efforts to blame …
Cable TV prices have been soaring for 20 years, which probably explains why everyone’s cutting the cord
Cable TV is undeniably expensive. With the average bundle sitting around $105, it costs substantially more than a cell plan and some people’s electricity. But …
Cord-cutting is hitting the cable companies where it hurts most: Money
As it’s been extensively documented for the last year, cord-cutting streaming services are coming for the cable companies. Pay TV subscriptions are down by record …
The number of cord-cutters has tripled in the last 5 years, and it’s starting to hurt the TV channels
Cord-cutting and the shift to streaming TV services poses an existential threat to pay TV companies. The last two years have seen record numbers of …
Netflix’s ambitious spending is paying off in a big way
When people talk about cord-cutting and switching to streaming cable alternatives, they’re normally referring to ditching physical cable for a package like Sling or DirecTV …
The only thing keeping cable TV alive is expensive internet packages
Pay TV has had a rough few years, with subscriber numbers hitting record lows, new competition springing up all over the place, and mobile devices …
Do we even have to say that Comcast’s Netflix competitor will probably suck?
Comcast is in the middle of an acquisition of Sky, the largest pay TV operator in the UK and a crown jewel in the Murdoch …
No one wants satellite TV any more
The entire pay TV industry is being shaken by the emergence of cord-cutting, also known as people realizing they don’t have to pay $105 a …
Not all internet plans are created equal, and this study will show you why
The general assumption is that unless your internet comes from Google Fiber or a local provider, you’re overpaying for a mediocre service. There’s certainly some …
Cable companies are responding to record-breaking cord-cutting by shortening ad breaks
Whether it likes it or not, the pay TV industry is in the middle of a revolution. More people are ditching cable and satellite TV …
Cord-cutting just hit another record, and cable companies are in denial
The pay TV industry is in the midst of a huge change. Half a million pay TV customers cancelled their contracts in the last three …
YouTube TV is adding CNN, NBA basketball and the MLB – but it’ll cost you
YouTube TV is one of the best cord-cutting cable alternatives out there as it currently stands. The pricing and channel line-up is in line with …
This is how politicians should deal with bad cable companies
The relationship between a town’s government and its cable company is often uneasy. Cable companies often hold regional monopolies — only 20% of Americans have …
Everyone hates cable TV, not just young people
The common narrative for cable companies is that cord-cutting is all the fault of those gosh-darn millenials. If they’d just stop pirating shows and sharing …
Can T-Mobile actually fix cable?
T-Mobile announced this morning that it’s bought out TV tech company Layer3, with the intention of launching an-new cable service sometime next year. It’s a …
The definitive guide to watching NFL football without cable
Anyone who’s tried cutting the cord knows that watching live sports is the hardest thing to do without cable. Even getting every game with cable is challenging, …
A million people cut the cord in the last 3 months, and cable companies are worried
Cord-cutting, or at least the speed at which people are ditching pay TV, is on track to be the biggest upset of the year. There’s …
‘Skinny TV’ isn’t going to save the cable industry from cord cutting
Cord cutting is happening faster than anyone predicted, and it’s taking down the big cable companies with it. AT&T lost nearly 400,000 traditional cable subscribers last quarter, …
Forget running fiber to your house – cable internet can now do 10Gbps
Fiber internet is one of those things that politicians keep promising, and everyone keeps lusting over. Unfortunately. running a dedicated fiber line to everyone’s house …
Microsoft and Facebook just laid a massive cable across the Atlantic Ocean to make your life better
If you’ve ever felt the incredible frustration of wiring up a dozen gadgets in a home office, just imagine trying to connect a wire between …
People are about to start dumping cable faster than ever before
It’s a bad time to be a cable TV executive. Streaming services are popping up faster than big cable companies can throttle them, and years …
Charter increases already-ridiculous fee because there’s nothing you can do to stop it
For the last two years, big cable TV companies have been charging a “Broadcast TV Fee” which, in every way, is already a bunch of …
Consumer Reports confirms that yep, cable companies still suck
The results of Consumer Reports‘ annual Telecoms Survey are here, and the results are not remotely shocking. Once again, big cable companies achieve low scores in …
Cable companies need to be scared, because cord cutting is here to stay
For a few years, cable companies saw cordcutting as another millenial fad that would go the way of the hoverboard. But Netflix’s dramatic growth was …
The best feature of AT&T’s new $35 TV subscription might be illegal
AT&T is trying to change cable TV forever. Starting sometime this month, AT&T will offer an internet-only subscription TV package, with upwards of 100 channels …
