Tag: Cord Cutting
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Our Rebuttal to Kim Komando & USA Today’s Anti-Cord Cutting Story
This week Kim Komando posted a story called “The real cost of cutting the cord: What streaming companies don’t want you to know.“ In this story, she poses the idea that cord cutting costs more than cable TV. A few days later USA Today picked up the story and ran with it on their website.…
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Cord Cutting Today #60 – Sling TV International’s New Boss, Hulu’s CEO Comments On Ad Free Plan, & 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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AT&T’s Xandr Gives Us New Insight to Americans Binge Watching Habits
Xandr, AT&T’s advertising company, recently shared the results of a survey of 2,000 TV viewers which gave some interesting insight into viewing habits. These are some of the highlights of the Show Discovery & Tune-In report: They average consumer watches 5 genres and 8 shows per week 64% have binge-watched a show in the past 6…
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95% of Cord Cutters Subscribe to Four Or Fewer Streaming Services
For months we have heard that cord cutting costs more than cable TV because you need to subscribe to so many services. Many of the examples have pushed the idea that you need six, seven, or sometimes eight or more services to get what you want. The research group TDG recently reported that the average…
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Cord Cutting Today #59 – Hulu’s New Grid Guide, Top 10 Apple TV Apps, Roku, & 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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Why You Need a Weather Radio With Cord Cutting and Where to Get One
Most of us rely on TV or internet to give us weather updates day to day. But, when there’s extreme weather in your area, those communication networks are extremely vulnerable to the conditions. Superstorm Sandy is just one example. When the storm hit the east coast, many New Yorkers were without power and cell phone…
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Cord Cutting Will Reportedly Grow to 39 Million Americans & Cord Nevers Will Hit 37 Million Americans in 2019
Recently eMarketer released its look at the current state of cord cutting. Right now it is reported that cord cutting has grown to between 30 and 35 million Americans. eMarketer estimates that trend will continue as the number of cord cutters in the United States will grow to 30 million and cord nevers will grow…
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Cord Cutting This Week #76 – Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, fuboTV & More See Strong Growth
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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The Biggest Lie in TV Right Now Is That Cable TV Can Give You Everything You Want with a Single Bill
This week at the pay-TV show in Denver, we have seen a flood of cable executives push the idea that cable can give you everything you want in a single bill. The idea is that cord cutting means you have to get a long list of services or just pay for cable and get everything…
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Cord Cutting This Week Podcast #3 – Cable Executives Living in Denial, AT&T Doesn’t Want You, Amazon, & More
For years people have been asking us to bring back our weekly cord cutting podcast. Today I am excited to announce that we are relaunching our weekly podcast now called Cord Cutting This Week. The new podcast will be posted by Luke and Jess. Welcome to the relaunch of our weekly podcast. Today Luke and Jess…