Tag: Cord Cutting
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Editorial: Hey Cable TV Wake Up! Cord Cutters Just Don’t Want What You’re Offering
This week at the Pay TV Show in Denver, I had an opportunity to meet with and hear from some of the biggest names in cable TV and live TV streaming. PlayStation Vue, Philo, Sling TV, Pluto TV, fuboTV, Hulu, Amazon, and a host of others companies all sent executives to the event. During the…
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Study: The Top 5 Reasons People Ditch Cable For Cord Cutting
This week at the Denver Pay TV Show, Joel Espelien, a senior analyst at TDG opened up about their cord cutting studies. One of the most interesting was a look at what finally made people move to cord cutting. Often people have been thinking about cord cutting and plan to do it, but TDG recently…
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My Cord Cutting Setup: Services I Personally Use
One of the most common questions I get is what cord cutting services do I use. Today I want to give an updated list of all the services I use. What services I use is a tough question, because I subscribe to a ton of services for work. I currently have a subscription to every…
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5 Cord Cutting Stories to Keep an Eye on For the Rest of 2018
2018 is already almost one-fourth over and there has already been a ton of cord cutting news. Now looking forward to the rest of 2018 there are even more stories to watch for. Here are my top 5 cord cutting stories to keep an eye on for the rest of 2018: New Live TV Streaming…
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Our Rebuttal to The Washington Post Story “You think you hate your cable bundle. You’re wrong.”
This week The Washington Post released an opinion piece called “You think you hate your cable bundle. You’re wrong.” As you would expect this story raised a lot of eyebrows in the world of cord cutting. Americans Don’t Love Bundles The short version of the story is that while many Americans hate bundles in reality…
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Don’t Forget: We Will Be Live on YouTube Tonight Answering Your Cord Cutting Questions
If you don’t already know, our weekly Cord Cutting Q&A show is every Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern. During the show, we talk about all things cord cutting from the latest news to answering your Cord Cutting questions live. If you have yet to join our weekly Q&A, why not give us a try every…
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Here Are The Top 5 Deals in Cord Cutting As of April 2018
The best thing about cord cutting is picking the services and channels you want. The tough thing about cord cutting sometimes is finding the best deals out there. Today we want to break down the top 5 best cord cutting deals available. #1 Spotify & Hulu Just $12.99 Last year Hulu and Spotify teamed up…
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3 Common Mistakes New Cord Cutters Make & How You Can Avoid Them
Cord cutting is growing faster than ever, but while it may be more powerful than ever it can still be confusing. Making the move from a pay-TV service, such as cable TV, to cord cutting is no small move; however, it does not need to be as difficult as many new cord cutters make it.…
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Mind the Gap: Broadcasters and the Growing Concern Around the “Subscriber Fee Gap” (Guest Post)
Today we have a guest post by Jim Long, CEO of Didja. Jim Long has over 25 years of experience in media industry. More recently he is the CEO of Didja the company behind LocalBTV. LocalBTV streams locals for free in several markets around the United States including Los Angeles (SoCalBTV), Phoenix (PhoenixBTV) and San Francisco…
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Since 2012 The US Population Has Grown By 11+ Million But Cable TV Has Lost Millions of Subscribers
Putting a firm number on how many cord cutters that are out there is very difficult. While we can see that cable TV has lost 2.8+ subscribers since 2012, according to Leichtman Research Group, that number is a bit deceiving. For example, Dish includes their over 2 million Sling TV subscribers as part of their traditional…