Tag: Cord Cutting
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22 Million More Americans Will Become a Cord Cutter in 2017
Well it looks like Cord Cutting is continuing to see solid growth from the proliferation of streaming devices and services like Sling TV, PlayStation Vue, Hulu, and DIRECTV NOW to name a few. According to a report from eMarketer in 2017, 22.2 million U.S. adults will cut the cord on cable, satellite or telco TV…
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5 Cord Cutting Pro Tips to Make Cord Cutting Easier
Cord cutting is probably one of the best decisions you could make this year; however, there can be a bit of a learning curve to becoming a cord cutter. Saving money can mean a little bit of work. So I want to take a minute and pass along my top five cord cutting pro tips.…
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How to Make Cord Cutting Easier
Cord cutting can be slightly intimidating at first for new cord cutters. You go from watching TV the same way for 30 or more years and now you need to learn a new way to do the same old thing. The good news is cord cutting does not need to be scary or intimidating at…
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Exposing Cable TV’s Ties to Anti-Cord Cutting Stories
Recently there has been a flood of anti-cord cutting stories all targeting the same ideas: cord cutting costs too much and is too hard. I cut that argument apart in a post already this week that you can find here. This time I want to take a look at the cable companies that are pushing…
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Editorial: There Is a Real War Against Cord Cutting
This is something that I have hinted at in the past but it has now become too obvious to ignore. With all the poorly conceived anti-cord cutting stories I have to speak out. There is an organized effort to aggressively go after cord cutting. (There I said it.) Clearly there is an organized group with…
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My Reply to the New York Times’s Anti-Cord Cutting Story
Once again the New York Times has been less than kind to cord cutters. Just over a year ago I posted a reply to its story “The Downside to Cord-Cutting.” Now it has a new one called “The Messy, Confusing Future of TV? It’s Here”. This story by Kevin Roose brings up many popular themes…
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Editorial: The War on Cord Cutting Is Heating Up
You can often tell who someone is afraid of by who they attack. The same thing is true with companies as more and more effort is being made to downplay cord cutting. People and companies are scared of cord cutting and the attacks on it are heating up. Just this week a slew of anti-cord…
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Canadians Are Finally Getting Good Cord Cutting Options
If you are an American you may be shocked to learn that most Canadians don’t really have good cord cutting options. There is no Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, or PlayStation Vue. Netflix and Amazon Prime are there, but they are just a fraction of the size of the US versions. But there is good news…
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Cord Cutting Is Slowly Destroying Satellite TV Providers
We often talk about how bad things are for cable TV providers; however, they are not the only ones having a really bad time. Satellite providers are also seeing devastatingly fast subscriber losses. In the second quarter 2017 AT&T lost 351,000 pay-TV subscribers; however, DIRECTV NOW did add about 152,000 subscribers in the second quarter…
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5 Cord Cutting Tips For New Cord Cutters
New to cord cutting? Well we can help! Here are 5 tips to help you get started in the world of cord cutting. If you would rather read here are the tips we talked about in the video: #1 Don’t Rush Into It The number one mistake people make when they cut the cord is…