In case you need another reason to hate your cable TV provider and more of a push to seriously consider cutting the cord and going all-in on streaming, Consumer Reports is out with the results of a new study that will make you want to tear your hair out. After studying several hundred consumer cable …
I am sure that this will come as a tremendous shock to the five people who have had pleasant interactions with their cable provider in the past, but according to Consumer Reports‘ latest survey, people still dislike their pay TV providers immensely. 176,000 Consumer Reports members participated in the most recent telecommunications survey, and while the …
It is not a pleasant time to be a cable company. Decades of regional monopolies are being swept away, leaving us with — the horror! — actual competition. Prices on streaming bundles are so low that companies are actually struggling to make money on the $40-a-month skinny services. Any time margins are so low that …
An inflection point for the television industry has seemingly arrived as a new survey from financial firm Cowen & Co. shows that Netflix is now more popular than traditional TV. In a survey of 2,500 US adults, Cowen & Co. asked which platforms everyone used most often to view video content on TV. Netflix came …
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 year, ad revenue dropping, and viable streaming alternatives popping up virtually every month. Leichtman Research has some new data (spotted by DSL Reports) on the recent losses of the cable and satellite …
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 the exodus on things like bad weather, the trend of shrinking subscriber bases should be obvious to anyone who can draw a downwards-sloping curve. Unfortunately (for share prices), things haven’t …
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 it hasn’t always been this way: According to a new report from Kagan, prices have increased by 74% since 2000, even when accounting for inflation. Over the same period of …
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 numbers nearly every quarter, more and more people are subscribing to TV services, and the “never cable” generation is growing up and replacing their cable-subscribing parents. But so far, one …
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 subscribers leave cable and satellite for much cheaper streaming services, resulting in price hikes from content owners and a great amount of navel-gazing. Unfortunately for pay TV execs, the bad …
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 Now. Those services all offer a cable-lite experience, streamed through an app or TV dongle, which replicates a traditional cable package, plus a few modern extras. But according to Deloitte’s annual …
