Tag: Cable TV
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Cable TV Turns 75 Years Old This Month… How More Years Does it Have Left?
In June of 1948, John Walson set up an antenna on top of the New Boston Mountain in Mahanoy City, PA. There he ran a cable down to the town so it could get TV signals that had been blocked by the mountain in the past. From there, he connected homes in the town and…
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The Average Cable TV Bill Cost is Skyrocketing
Cord cutting is causing quite a stir as cable providers scramble to make up rapidly decreasing revenue as customers switch to streaming services. Part of this decline was spurred on by the 2020 pandemic, but consumers have steadily been replacing cable with streaming ever since. One reason for this mass exodus from cable is monthly…
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Cord Cutting 2.0 is Here As Cable TV Companies See Internet Growth Slow
Major cable TV companies are experiencing a slow growth of broadband internet subscribers. The Leichtman Research Group analyzed the top U.S. broadband service providers totaling 96 percent of the entire market and the numbers don’t look promising for cable. For the first quarter of 2023, only 65,000 subscribers signed up for all leading cable companies…
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The Average Cable TV Subscriber Now Pays $1,764 a Year Just For TV
Are you still thinking cable TV may be cheaper than cord cutting? A new look at the true cost of cable TV from Mntn Research puts a lie to those claims. According to the report, the average cable TV bill just for TV is now $147. The worst part of it is they report that…
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Another Cable TV Company is Shutting Down its TV Service As Only 10% of Its Customers Pay For TV
You can add one more name to a growing list of cable TV companies that will be shutting down their TV services. Mid-Rivers Communications has announced that they will be ending cable TV operations on December 31st, 2023. This comes as they say only 10% of their customers still pay for TV and that it…
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The Death of Cable TV is Coming Faster Than Expected As a Growing Number of Cable TV Companies Are Shutting Down Their TV Service
This week we learned about two cable TV companies shutting down their TV service. They join a growing list of companies that have said TV is just not profitable and not worth their time. Instead, they are outsourcing TV or just altogether not bothering with it and shutting down the service. CenturyLink, one of the…
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Another Cable TV Company is Shutting Down Its TV Service, Joining a Growing List of Cable TV Companies Getting Out of TV
Last week, we learned that the cable TV company WOW! would be shutting down its TV service this summer and replacing it with YouTube TV. Now thanks to a tip from our readers that Wikes Communications and its RiverStreet Networks have also shut down their cable TV service in Virginia and North Carolina. Now instead…
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Almost No One is Watching Cable TV During Primetime Anymore
The top ten networks are struggling to reach a few million combined, and a good chunk of those numbers are attributed to sports programming.
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The 4th Largest Cable TV Company is Considering Outsourcing Its TV Service In New Markets
Recently multiple smaller cable TV companies have recently shut down their TV services and have, in some cases, outsourced it to services like YouTube TV. Now according to Atlice USA, which operates under the brand Optimum, is looking at outsourcing its TV service in new markets. Update: We have updated this story to clarify that…
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The Average Cable TV Customer Now Pays Over $146 a Month Just For TV, Not Counting Internet
Recently we have been hearing about how cord cutting now costs more than cable TV, but a new report from Scripps Network puts that claim to rest. According to a survey Scripps Network conducted, the average cable TV customer now pays $146.2 a month for just TV, both with cable and streaming services. It has…