Tag: Cord Cutters
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Beware: Scammers Are Targeting Cord Cutters With Fake Streaming Service Deals
Streaming services, like virtually every other business, roll out special holiday promotions every year. But not all the offers are legitimate. Cord Cutters News spotted a few examples of people on Facebook who’ve potentially received emails from scammers posing as popular streamers. The users shared separate experiences about getting emails saying they’ve been “randomly selected”…
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Cord Cutters Will Outnumber Cable TV Subscribers By The End of The Year
For the first time, the number of cord cutters is expected to surpass the number of viewers paying for traditional TV services like cable and satellite. By the end of 2023, the number of pay TV customers in the U.S. is expected to drop 10.2% to 121.1 million while non-pay TV customers will climb 12.5%…
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Almost 50% of Cord Cutters Plan to Cancel Streaming Services – Should You Cut Back Also?
Recently the news has been full of cable TV companies and streaming companies raising their prices. Recently Spectrum announced a price hike on its TV, phone, and internet services. Now a growing number of streaming services, including Peacock, Shudder, and more, have all announced price hikes. This has led many cord cutters to start looking…
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Best Streaming Deals This Weekend: Save on Fire TV, TiVo Stream, Sony Soundbars, and More
This has been a very long week, so thank goodness that the weekend is finally here. Not just for the sake of rest and relaxation, but also the deals. We gathered the best deals on streaming devices, soundbars, and more. In fact, we even found a very good deal on the signal-boosting UMH Amplified HD…
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Affecting Cord Cutters
There’s little doubt the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the ways we live our lives. Many of us work from home now, while others don’t have that luxury and continue working on-site in the face of greater risk. And while it’s certainly not the biggest concern or the most important focus right now, the pandemic…
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Most Cord Cutters Want an Ad Free Experience According to a New Study
The battle over how many ads Americans are willing to watch has heated up ever since Netflix launched its ad-free service. Now TV Time and United Talent Agency (UTA)’s IQ data and analytics group have released a new study called the “Beyond the Big Three” that includes a look at streamers and ad viewing. According to this…
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Free Streaming Service Kanopy Welcomes Two Additions to Leadership Team
Kanopy, the premium free streaming service announced two new hires to it’s senior leadership team today. In addition, the company announced a brand new engineering office in Orange County California to continue their recruiting efforts. Dave Barney has joined Kanopy as Chief Technology Officer while Chase Rigby is the company’s new Chief Product Officer, both…
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Most Cord Cutters Pay for Three or Fewer Streaming Services According to New Survey
If you have been on any social media you have likely seen a post talking about how cord cutting costs more than cable TV because you need nine or 10 different services. So, Cord Cutters News decided to ask over 4,000 of our readers and, according to them, 79% of cord cutters pay for three…
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Cord Cutting This Week Podcast #8 – New Roku TVs Clear the FCC, AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW Focus, & More
Welcome to the relaunch of our weekly podcast. Today Luke and Jess talk about New Roku TVs, AT&T’s DIRECTV NOW Focus, & More. (You can now also find us on Apple Podcasts and Tunein along with many other great podcast apps.) Did you know we have a YouTube Channel? Every week we have a live Cord Cutting…
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Cord Cutting Today #79 – Rescan Your Antenna, New Tivo DVR, PlayStation Vue, & More
Did you know we have a daily YouTube cord cutting newscast? Cord Cutting Today look sat the biggest Cord Cutting stories from the past 24 hours in about five or so minutes. We will post these Monday through Friday in an effort to help keep you up to date on everything happening in the world…