Tag: Cord Cutting
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Cord Cutting This Week #111 – HOA’s Illegally Try to Block Antennas, IPTV Lawsuits, Locast, & 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…
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Cord Cutting Is Getting “Freaking Ugly” for Cable Companies According to MoffettNathanson
Over the past two weeks cable companies like Spectrum and Comcast have released their subscriber numbers as part of their second quarter earnings. As you may have heard, many companies reported record-setting losses including AT&T with almost a million subscribers lost in the second quarter of 2019. Now the research group MoffettNathanson has posted that they…
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Cable TV’s Plan to Fight Cord Cutting Is Failing
For years, cable TV had a simple plan to fight cord cutting. Cable TV wanted cord cutters to subscribe to their slimmer, cheaper TV packages. Now that plan is not working out as originally convinced. As cord cutting is growing at record rates live TV streaming service subscriptions are slowing down. In the past week…
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Our Rebuttal to Consumer Reports’ Anti-Cord Cutting Story
This week, Consumer Reports published a story on their website and in the September 2019 Consumer Reports magazine called “The Cord-Cutting Decision Is Tougher These Days. Here’s What You Need to Know” by James K. Willcox. This story used many of the same attacks that the March 2019 cord cutting story used, but they made…
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Cord Cutting This Week – AT&T Lost Almost 1 Million TV Subscribers, AT&T TV Details, & 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…
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Cord Cutting Today #104 – Spectrum Loses 141,000 TV Subscribers, YouTube TV, DIRECTV NOW, & 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…
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Congress Wants to Update TV Laws To Address Cord Cutting & End Broadcast TV Blackouts
This week House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the Modern Television Acto of 2019. This bill would replace the 1992 Cable Act. Part of it would address TV blackouts and seek to increase competition in the world of TV. “Congress today begins a reboot of the rules governing…
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The Growth of Cord Cutting Has Made Network Blackouts More Likely
DIRECTV NOW, DIRECTV, and U-verse TV have lost Nexstar locals and all CBS locals (on DIRECTV NOW). DISH lost Meredith-owned locals and today both DISH and Sling TV lost FOX RSNs. In the last few months, AT&T has come close to blackouts with both Viacom and A+E Networks. Now it seems that cord cutting has…
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Cord Cutting Claims its First Victim As a Montana Cable Telecommunications Company Shuts Down
This week cord cutting claimed its first victim as the Montana Cable Telecommunications Association announced it is shutting down after 60 years. When talking about why it is shutting down the Montana Cable Telecommunications Association listed “cord cutters” and programming rate pressure as the reasons for disbanding. “We thank all those who have supported us…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Identifying Piracy Is Becoming Increasingly More Difficult
Ten years ago, it was easy to spot pirated movies or TV shows. The quality was low and often the sites promoting the content were clearly not official. Or, maybe, you used torrents to download movies. Now it is becoming increasingly difficult because not only are the sites extremely professional in appearance, they are also…