Tag: Cable TV

While streaming services continue to dominate the entertainment landscape, a surprising trend is emerging: live television, specifically sports, news, and live events, is proving to be the lifeline for traditional cable TV. Despite the convenience and vast libraries offered by platforms like Netflix and Disney+, many viewers are demonstrating an unwavering appetite for the immediacy…

One thing has remained consistent in 2024 with cable TV bills going up…again. Both Comcast and Spectrum, two of the nation’s largest cable providers, have announced significant price increases in 2024, leaving many customers feeling gouged and frustrated. They are joined by many smaller cable TV companies and satellite TV companies like DIRECTV, raising their…

The cable television industry is bracing for a wave of closures in 2025, with anonymous sources revealing to Cord Cutters News that over 50 cable TV companies are expected to cease operations. This alarming prediction comes as the industry grapples with an accelerating decline in subscribers and mounting financial pressures. While the exact names of…

GCI, a major telecommunications provider in Alaska, has announced it will discontinue its traditional cable TV service in mid-2025. The company will transition its remaining cable subscribers to online streaming services, marking another victory for cord-cutting and highlighting the ongoing decline of traditional television. In a letter to subscribers, GCI acknowledged the trend towards online…

A lot has happened in 2024 impacting the future of many cable TV networks. These events have forced some cable TV networks to make dramatic changes including Adult Swim, which starts at 5 PM on Cartoon Network. Warner Bros. Discovery has rebranded TruTV as a sports network. Boomerang has suddenly found its parent company launching…

In a move that could send ripples of concern through the television news industry, Scripps is shutting down the national news programming produced by its Scripps News unit. This decision will result in an estimated 200 job cuts and marks a significant retreat from the company’s ambitious effort to offer national news coverage across its…

Cord-cutting shows no sign of slowing down, with embattled cable TV companies losing another 1.62 million subscribers in the second quarter of 2024. This decline precedes the recent public dispute between DIRECTV and Disney, which further underscores the challenges faced by the pay-TV industry. The total number of pay-TV subscribers has now plummeted to just…

Cable TV is continuing to lose viewership in 2024 as many Americans switch over to streaming and other methods to watch TV. According to a new report from Nielsen, cable TV now accounts for just 26.7% of all TV viewership and streaming accounts for 41.4%. Broadcast TV is holding strong with 20.3% of viewership and…

Cord cutting has been hitting cable TV hard this year as Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery report having to write down almost $15 billion in value on their cable TV networks. In a sobering second-quarter earnings report released yesterday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) disclosed a massive $9.1 billion write down attributed to its television networks.…