Tag: Cable TV
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48.9% of Americans Plan to Leave Their Pay TV Provider This Year
2017 has already been a bad year for cable executives, but it’s about to get a lot worse. According to a new study by Tivo (formally Digitalsmiths) 48.9% of pay-TV customers are thinking about leaving their current provider. About 17.3% are definitely planning to leave their current provider with over 31.6% saying they may be…
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New Study Shows The Growing Decline of Cable TV
In what is a growing list of bad news for traditional pay-TV services, it turns out fewer Americans rely on just traditional pay-TV services. Over half of all pay-TV subscribers also subscribe to a streaming video service. This data comes from Parks Associates and gives us a look into the steady growth of cord cutting.…
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Cable TV Is “Failing” According to Industry Insider
Cord cutting has for some time now been slowly taking a bite out of traditional pay TV. For years cable companies have tried to down play the impact of cord cutting, but now it seems they can no longer deny what is happening. “As a business, it is failing,” said Matthew Polka, CEO of the…
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Almost Every Major Cable Company Raised Its Rates or Fees This Year
Every new year seems to mean a new rate hike or new fees for pay-TV providers. This year so many of them came so quickly we missed several of them. Here is a breakdown of new fees and rate hikes from many of the big cable TV services. AT&T If you have AT&T U-verse video…
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Once Again Cable TV Rates & Fees Are Going Up
Update: A early version of this story suggested that this is the second time RCN raised rates this year. RCN only raised rates once this year and it happened in January. RCN, the tenth largest cable provider in the United States, recently announced it will be increasing cable rates once again. (So its 3.8 million subscribers…
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More Cable TV Subscribers Are Downgrading Their Subscriptions
Cord cutting comes in many different forms including cord shaving. Increasingly many who struggle with over-the-air TV are downgrading to local channels only packages to supplement their cord cutting lineup. Although this allows traditional pay-TV providers to show them as TV subscribers, the truth is more and more American households are downgrading their service. According…
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The Consolidation of Cable TV Continues
Over the last few years we have seen a slow but steady consolidation in cable TV providers. First there was the failed mega merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable, which later turned into a successful merger of Charter and Time Warner Cable. Now we have Cable One buying a regional cable company, NewWave, which…
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The Esquire Network is Shutting Down & Moving Online
Esquire today announced that they will be shutting down their cable TV channel. This is likely the first in what will be a flood networks shutting down their traditional cable TV channels over the new few years in favor of online streaming. Launched back in 2013 to replace the Style Network, Esquire TV had the…
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Teen Viewership of Cable TV is Plummeting — Now Far Behind Netflix
Last week a survey was released of 10,000 US teens on their viewing habits. What may not surprise many is that cable TV is falling as a percentage of screen time for teens. What may surprise people is how far it has fallen because cable TV is now just 25% of teens’ viewing time. In…
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Cable TV Subscribers Pay on Average $10 For Every Channel They Actually Watch
We have all heard crazy predictions of how à la carte TV will drive up the cost of channels; however, have you ever thought about what you are really paying per channel with cable TV? A recent study by Digitalsmiths, a Tivo-owned research company, showed that once again over 83% of pay-TV subscribers watch 10…