Cord-cutting is happening faster than anyone predicted
Cable companies have been terrified by the massive exodus that has become cord-cutting. People just don’t want to fork over $120 a month for a …
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If coronavirus delays the NFL, a third of cable subscribers say they’ll cancel
ESPN’s ratings are down in a major way right now, thanks to the fact that the coronavirus pandemic means no professional sports games are being …
Cable TV prices have gone up so much that they now exceed most combined utility bills
One of the consequences of a growing number of consumers cutting the cord and going all-in on streaming TV is that cable TV companies end …
Cable TV’s subscriber losses in 2019 dwarfed the population of Los Angeles
“The media industry is finally facing that long-feared moment of accelerating cord-cutting.” That’s one of the it-should-go-without-saying highlights of a new research note published this …
Your pay TV bill is going up yet again this month, because the industry is out of ideas
Some things never change. The hatred of Mondays. The joy of Christmas. And how, with inexorable regularity, the cable industry — in the face of …
Shockingly, Congress passed a law banning one of the cable industry’s most despised practices
It’s no secret at this point that Big Cable is a dying industry, hemorrhaging so many paying subscribers and jacking up prices on those poor …
Cable TV subscriber losses in 2020 could top the populations of Chicago and Houston combined
This new chapter of the Streaming Wars that we’re in, with Netflix continuing to crush it and new streamers on the way from Disney, HBO’s …
Cable could lose over 39 million subscribers this year to streaming services
The bad news keeps getting worse for Big Cable, and there’s no end in sight. The latest? UBS this week released the results of its …
More than 1 million people cut the cord during the most recent quarter
Dish Network announced today that it shed 334,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter, with a substantial portion of the departures being attributed to the ongoing …
Netflix usage surpassed cable and satellite TV for the first time in 2018
The streaming video landscape is definitely going to look more interesting — and fragmented — than ever as 2019 continues to unfold, with established names …
Cable bills are soaring, with some consumers paying almost $1,300 a year as a result
Consumers are cutting the cord in droves and increasingly replacing traditional cable TV packages with skinny bundles and streaming options. And, of course, in the …
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 …
Sorry, but cable TV won’t exist by 2030
A new report hit inboxes today that makes some bold claims about the future of cable TV. The Diffusion Group (TDG) estimates that by 2030, …
‘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, …
2017 will likely be the worst year ever for cable TV as cord cutting continues
If you ever wanted proof that cord cutting is more than just a fad, look no further than cancellation numbers for pay TV subscriptions. In …
Young Americans will be the death of cable TV
The best data we have suggests that cord-cutting — ditching cable TV for streaming services — is happening faster than anyone foresaw. But in case …
New study shows why cable TV is actually doomed
Streaming services are trying to make cable TV redundant, and they’re having some success. We already knew that much; the only question left is how …
