Tag: Cord Cutting
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Introducing the New Cord Cutting This Week Podcast with Luke & Jess
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. Every week we will be posting a video and audio podcast.…
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Fidelity Fund Managers Expect Cord Cutting to Continue to Grow At a “Record Rate”
Many pundits and even some studies suggest that cord cutting will slow down in 2019. Now, Fidelity says they expect cord cutting to not only continue but to grow in 2019. “I believe cord cutting is increasing at a record rate, which is why I’ve been bearish on big cable and bullish on providers of…
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Spectrum Says Cord Cutters Use an Average of 400GB a Month
One of the big fears with cord cutting is going over your data cap (for cord cutters with data caps). Now Charter, the parent company of Spectrum, says the average cord cutter uses 400GB a month. This is double the data used by non-cord cutters as the average Internet customer uses about 200GB a month.…
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Most Cord Cutters Say They Don’t Miss Anything about Cable TV
For years now cable TV has hoped that cord cutters would come running back because they missed cable TV. Cable TV executives have even talked openly about how cord cutters just don’t know what they are missing by not having cable TV. Now the analytics firm, The Harris Poll, has released a study showing that…
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Our Rebuttal to The Boston Globe’s Anti-Cord Cutting Story
You may have noticed that there has been a flood of anti-cord cutting stories recently. Last weekend, The Boston Globe joined in with a front-page story called “Internet TV catching up to cable—on price.” As you would expect, many of our readers reached out very upset with what they felt was a one-sided story. So,…
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Cord Cutting is Starting to Become Popular in Europe As Cable TV’s Growth is Significantly Down
While cord cutting is still finding the most popularity in the US, countries around the world are starting to trend toward streaming and away from pay TV. A Strategy Analytics report is offering some insight about how cord cutting is growing in Europe. The Strategy Analytics European Pay TV Index shows that overall, pay TV subscriptions…
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There Are At Least Three Different Types of Cord Cutting: What Type of Cord Cutter Are You?
If you read Cord Cutters News every day you likely know we often talk about how there is no one-size-fits-all solution to cord cutting. Still one of the most common arguments among cord cutters is what is cord cutting? Can you be a cord cutter and subscribe to a live TV streaming service? Is the…
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Cord Cutting This Week #73 – DIRECTV NOW Loses Subscribers, PlayStation Vue Sale, Amazon Buying Fox Sports, YouTube TV, & 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 let…
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A New Study Says Cord Cutting Will Accelerate in 2019
Earlier this year reports came out saying cord cutting was likely to slow down in 2019. We got early numbers showing that AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon lost over 900,000 subscribers in just the first three months of the year. A new report from the Convergence Research Group even says cord cutting will speed up in…
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As Cord Cutting Grows Comcast, AT&T, & Verizon Lost Over 900,000 Subscribers in Just 3 Months
For all the talk of cord cutting slowing down, there seems to be no sign of it. So far, with just Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T reporting their first quarter 2019 numbers, over 900,000 people canceled their pay-TV service. If this trend continues through 2019 and does not speed up, Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon will lose…