Tag: Cable TV
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Cable TV Companies Object to the FCC Increasing Minimum Broadband Internet Speeds Requirements
Right now, to be considered broadband Internet you need to offer 25 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up. When that rule was made those speeds made sense. As 4K video, video gaming, and other activities requiring more speed have become popular, those speeds don’t meet the needs of customers in 2023. Recently Google, Ting, and…
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Cable TV Viewership Dropped to A New Low in November 2023 According to Nielsen As Cord Cutting Grows
The steady decline of cable TV continues as the number of people watching cable networks dropped to a new low in 2023. This comes as cable TV viewing now dropped below 30% of all TV viewing. According to Neilsen, cable TV network viewing now accounts for just 28.3% of all TV viewing. Streaming accounts for…
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4 Cable TV Companies Have or Will Shut Down TV Service Soon
Over the last few weeks, we have learned about four cable TV companies that have or will shut down their TV services. A growing number of them say offering TV service no longer makes sense. The following four cable TV companies are walking away from TV: Bailey Cable TV Some cable TV companies may be…
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This Cable TV Company Is Shutting Down Its TV Service & Replacing It With a Fire TV Stick
If you live in parts of Nebraska or Indiana, your cable TV company may soon no longer offer cable TV through a cable TV box. Instead, they are going all-in on streaming with a Fire TV Stick. Great Plains Communications quietly started to send customers Fire TV Sticks to replace their cable TV boxes and…
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Another Cable TV Company Announces It Will Shut Down Its TV Service Because of “Extreme Price Increases from Programmers”
Over the last year a growing number of small cable TV companies have announced that they will shut down their TV service. You can add DUO Broadband to that list. They announced that they will shut down both their traditional cable TV and streaming TV services soon. According to DUO Broadband, they are being forced…
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Only 24% of American Households Subscribe to Cable TV in the City of Baltimore as the Slow Death of Cable TV Continues
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…
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Is Your Cable TV & Internet Not Working? Someone May Have Stolen Your Cable Lines
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…
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Get Ready to Pay More for Cable TV in 2024 Because of a Weak Ad Market
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…
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Local ABC, CBS, FOX, & NBC Owners Want YouTube TV & Others Turned Into Cable TV Companies But The FCC May Not Have That Power
Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology subcommittee held a hearing on FCC oversight of broadband. This included the possibility that the FCC may reclassify streaming services like YouTube TV into cable TV companies. This comes as recently 20 US Senators joined a growing number of local TV station owners to ask the Federal…
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Biden Wants to Ban Cable TV Fees That Prevent Cord Cutting: Here Is Everything We Know
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…