Tag: Cable TV

Cord cutting has continued it slow, steady growth in 2023. According to the city of Baltimore’s budget director Laura Larsen, the city has fewer than 60,000 cable TV subscribers. That is a 44% drop from the 106,000 subscribers it had back in 2020, according to The Baltimore Banner. The United States Census, in 2022, showed…

Have you recently woken up and found your cable TV or internet has stopped working? It may not be anything your cable company did. Your cable lines may have been stolen. Reports of cable TV copper lines being stolen has skyrocketed with West Virginia being one of the states hardest hit. According to Frontier, they…

More cable TV price hikes are on the way in 2024 as TV networks and locals look for ways to make up lost ad revenue. According to a report from GroupM, who looks at ad spending in the United States, ad spending on TV will drop 5.1% in 2024 to $52.3 billion. This has left…

For some time now, the FCC has been talking about banning hidden fees in cable TV bills. This is reportedly part of a bigger plan by the Biden administration to block junk fees not just on cable TV but on all kinds of companies. This week the FCC has officially announced it will vote on…

For some time now, the FCC has been talking about banning hidden fees in cable TV bills. Now the FCC has officially announced it will vote on rules that would once and for all end the practice of having hidden fees. This includes rules that will ban early termination fees on cable TV. The FCC…

For years now many have asked us how companies like Comcast and Spectrum are not losing even more cable TV customers. The truth is many cable TV customers cannot cancel and are locked in by their apartment complex or homeowners’ association (HOA). Over the last 10 years, many companies have made deals with apartment owners…

There may be a time when you’ll be able to pay a few bucks for a day pass to access an exclusive program or live event from your pay-TV service, like cable TV similar to Fortnite-style micro-transactions. That’s according to Liz Riemersma, vice president of strategy, business development and international for Sling TV, who was…

An argument as old as cord cutting continues… “Just switch back to cable TV.” Can you really get everything you want from just cable TV? A new study from Vizio and Inscape offers an idea of how few people enjoy cable TV only. According to the study using data from Vizio smart TVs, just 5%…

A larger number of viewers on smart televisions are moving to streaming only, while a decent percentage of customers are clinging on to cable even if they aren’t using the service, according to a study conducted by Inscape, the research arm of TV maker Vizio. Of the 22 million Vizio TV viewers tallied in Inscape’s…