Tag: Cable TV
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Hidden Cable TV Fees & Taxes Can Add Over $60 a Month to Your Bill
As the year comes to a close we are once again seeing a flood of ads pushing crazy good deals on cable TV. Or maybe you have had a phone agent tell you they can give you TV and internet cheaper than internet only. So how can they advertise these great deals and yet you…
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How Long Until Cord Cutting Kills Cable TV? We Take a Look
Currently, there are 91.3 million pay TV customers. That number is quickly dropping. Pay TV services are losing 11,000 customers every day. Those numbers are enough to make Pay TV service providers very nervous and for good reason. If the companies continue losing customers at a rate of 11,000 per day, they’ll have no customers…
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Cord Cutting This Week 51 – NFL Sunday Ticket For Cord Cutters, Cable TV Price Hike, Roku, & More
Join Cord Cutters News every Saturday as we take a look back at some of the biggest Cord Cutting Stories from the past week. Now, remember these are my opinions on them not an in-depth look at each story. If you would like to learn more about each story check out the links below. (Also let…
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The Average Cable Bill Is 50% Higher Than It Was In 2010
Does cable TV feel a lot more expensive now? It is! The average cable bill is now $107, which is up 50% from 2010. This all comes from a new study from the Leichtman Research Group, Inc (LRG). Compared to 2017, cable bills are up 15% leading to fears that this is just the start of…
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Cable TV Just Has Their Worst Quarter Ever
Well, once again it is a really bad time to be a cable TV executive according to a new report by Kagan. According to a new report, pay-TV services lost 0.8% of all their subscribers. According to this report, Comcast and Charter accounted for 59% of all losses in the traditional pay-TV sector. “Traditional multichannel…
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Cable TV Fees Are Going Up Once Again
If you still have a traditional cable TV subscription you may want to get ready for a price hike. This week it was announced that Altice USA is raising their rates 3.2%, and when one company makes a price hike often others do too. “We are investing in our networks, services, and the overall customer…
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A $360 Cable Bill? We Take a Look at How It Happened to One Customer
We have all seen that way too good to be true deal on cable TV. From ads to people saying, “the deal was just too good I had to take it.” Yet what happens when all the freebies and promos come to an end? Thanks to one of our readers we can take a look…
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The Cable TV Industry Was Just Downgraded to Neutral By Barclays
Today was a very bad day for cable TV. Barclays today downgraded the whole cable TV industry to neutral. In their report, Barclays says their earlier more optimistic projects will likely come up $675 million short. Barclays had been assuming a relatively static competitive market for cable TV, now with the growth of cord-cutting and…
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Over a Million People Canceled Cable TV in Just 3 Months
In more bad news for traditional pay-TV owners, in the third quarter 2017 over a million Americans canceled their pay-TV service; however, we are still waiting for two pay-TV services to report, so the numbers could be even worse according to DSLReports. In their post they say, “Only five of the seven biggest pay-TV providers…
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Study: Most Cable TV Subscribers Also Subscribe to a Streaming Service
Today we got confirmation of something that has long been rumored: most pay-TV subscribers also subscribe to a streaming service. This comes from a report released yesterday by Parks Associates. “Many OTT services are evolving to be complementary to the market’s largest players, instead of trying to compete directly against Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu,” said Brett…