Tag: Cable TV
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Millions of Americans Are Trapped into Paying for Cable TV & Can’t Cancel Even If They Want To
2023 set a record for Americans ditching cable TV and going streaming only. But why are many still paying for cable TV? The truth is many cable TV customers cannot cancel and are locked in by their apartment rental or homeowners’ association (HOA) contract. Over the last 10 years, many companies have made deals with…
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Cord Cutting Today: The FCC Wants to End Cable TV’s Hidden Fees, Pluto TV Adds More Channels, & More
Today in Cord Cutting Today for February 23, 2024 we take a look at some of the biggest stories in the world of cord cutting including: The First Cable TV Network of 2024 Is Shutting Down and Switch to Streaming. You can find a link to all the stories we talk about today bellow this…
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These Three Cable TV Companies Are Shutting Down TV Service in 2024
It is only February, and already multiple cable TV companies have announced plans to shut down this year. DUO Broadband DUO Broadband announced that it will shut down both its traditional cable TV and its streaming TV services soon. According to DUO Broadband, it is being forced to make this change because of the “extreme…
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Cable TV Companies Reportedly Are Unhappy About the New Sports Streaming Service from Disney, Fox, & Warner Bros. Discovery & Lawsuits Are Possible
This month Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to launch a new sports streaming service that will give live access to sports networks like ESPN, FS1, and BTN. Now a growing number of companies are starting to object to and may even try to block the service. We have already heard that the…
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Spectrum To Buy Up Another Small Cable TV Company
Spectrum is set to purchase a small cable TV company in Kentucky as it looks for ways to bolster its shrinking base of customers. On Tuesday, the city council voted in agreement to sell Bardstown Connect along with its customer base and infrastructure to Charter Communications, Spectrum’s parent company. No timeline has been set for…
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Disney, FOX, & Warner Bros. Discovery May Have Just Killed Cable TV
This week Disney, FOX, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a partnership that would see a new sports-focused TV streaming service launch this fall. This service would offer 14 live channels of sports, including ESPN, BTN, FOX Sports, and sports from TNT—to name a few. This would address one of the main complaints of streaming services—the…
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Small Cable TV Companies Are Dying
2024 is already shaping up to be a rough year for cable TV companies. We have seen multiple cable TV companies announce plans to shut down their service in 2024, including KPU in Alaska. Others, like Bailey Cable TV, completely closed down last year without warning its customers thereby cutting them off from Internet and…
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Cable TV Revenues Expected To Shrink $30 Billion by 2027 As Cord Cutting Grows
The future of cable looks increasingly grim. The cable TV revenues is expected to shrink to $30 billion by 2027, according to data from Pricewaterhousecoopers reported by ABC. The loss will include revenue from subscriptions and advertisements. The firm also forecasts that by 2027, just 49.9 million — 38% — U.S. homes will get TV…
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These 15 Cable TV Networks Saw the Biggest Drop in Viewership in 2023 – Including VH1, Paramount, Disney XD, & Starz
2023 was a hard year for cable TV networks as most of them lost viewership. So that raises the question of who lost the most viewers by percentage of their total audience when looking at primetime viewership. According to Variety, here are the 15 cable TV channels that lost the most viewership in 2023: Increasingly,…
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Here Are The 5 Cable TV Networks Most Likely to Shut Down in 2024, Including FXX, Boomerang, & More
Late last year, a report from S&P Global Market Intelligence analyst Scott Robson listed the channels he thinks are most likely to shut down. So I decided to take my almost ten years of experience covering cord cutting and cable TV to list the top five channels I think are most likely to shut down…