You won’t believe how many people cut the cord during the coronavirus pandemic
Cable and satellite TV companies had their worst quarter on record in Q1 2020. In addition to all of the US households that are cutting …
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AT&T is bleeding TV subscribers like crazy, losing over 1.3 million last quarter
You should know by now that cord-cutting is a huge headache for cable companies. But with AT&T’s diversified lineup of television services across U-verse TV, …
Fees like these are why people utterly despise the cable industry
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 …
If you haven’t cut the cord yet, this survey might change your mind
As if anyone needed a reminder that the TV landscape continues to evolve, NBC announced this week that its forthcoming streaming service — named Peacock, …
Cable companies might have a secret weapon to deal with cord-cutting
Cable companies like Altice USA Inc. are starting to gravitate toward a business move that might — might — help them staunch the mounting losses …
Dire new figures show the cable industry is now losing 14,000 subscribers every day
At this point, it’s pretty hard to argue that the traditional pay TV industry is not living on borrowed time, as it continues to bleed …
Cord-cutting just hit a new record and put one more nail in traditional cable’s coffin
Cord-cutting just a hit a new record in the first quarter of this year, as more than 1 million people said goodbye to traditional cable …
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 …
Surprising no one, survey shows almost 60% of Americans have ditched cable TV
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but cable TV is continuing to bleed subscribers in record numbers as they flock to cheaper Internet-based …
Cable and satellite TV providers bled a record number of subscribers in the third quarter
The ongoing subscriber exodus from traditional paid-TV packages is picking up steam, with a record number of Americans now cutting the cord and going all-in …
Two different surveys confirm that cable companies are screwed
It is not a pleasant time to be a cable company. Decades of regional monopolies are being swept away, leaving us with — the horror! …
DirecTV Now gets a price hike so AT&T can stop losing so much money
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s cable-replacement streaming service, has been adding users like no tomorrow. Since launching in November 2016, it’s added over 1.5 million subscribers, making …
AT&T Watch is here: $15 for 30 channels, but no HBO
After teasing it heavily for the last few weeks, AT&T has finally taken the wraps off its new $15-a-month streaming service, AT&T Watch. For a …
AT&T teases $15-a-month streaming service, but only if the Time Warner merger happens
While giving testimony as part of the court case where AT&T is attempting to prove it should be allowed to merge with Time Warner, AT&T …
Cord cutting is crushing pay TV, and it’s glorious
Forgive me if you’ve heard this before, but cable companies just had another dismal quarter of subscriber losses. The top five publicly traded cable companies …
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 …
DirecTV Now just added a free cloud DVR that’s better than any cable box
There are many, many things to dislike about traditional cable, but one of the most outdated is probably the DVR technology. At a time when …
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 new ESPN+ streaming service doesn’t include ESPN
On April 12th, Disney is finally launching ESPN+, a $4.99-a-month streaming service that is widely seen as Disney’s first toe being dipped into the growing …
Cord-cutting will hit Comcast particularly hard
Cord-cutting is an existential problem that’s affecting the entire cable TV and satellite industry right now. But just as the weakest animals are the first …
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 …
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 …
High prices continue to drive cord-cutting
Cord-cutters ditching traditional pay TV for streaming cable alternatives are at an all-time high. Every quarter sees another record broken for people leaving cable, while …
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 …
