Tag: Cord Cutting
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This Is a Dangerous Time for Cord Cutting
Cord cutting has hit an interesting crossroads in the course of changing the future of how people watch TV. A few years ago being a cord cutter meant that you would save $1,000 or more a year while at the same time how you watch TV would change. You may give up something or have…
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A Short History of How Cord Cutting Started & Why Cable Companies Still Don’t Get It
I often get asked how cord cutting got started. People want to know when it really began and what changed to make it happen. So here is a short history of how cord cutting began. First I need to define cord cutting. There have always been people who didn’t pay for TV through a traditional…
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Tip of the Day: Avoid The Temptation to Make Cord Cutting About Replacing Cable TV
I am hearing a lot of talk about how cord cutting is not less expensive than cable TV. I could not disagree more because my family saves over $2,000 a year and our studies have shown that on average cord cutters save over $1,000 a year. When I talk with people who say they cannot…
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Over 2 Million Cable TV Subscribers Canceled or Downgraded in 2016
2016 has been a great year for cord cutters, and now we are just finding out how great it has been. From new services to a flood of new channels joining Sling TV and PlayStation Vue, the good news for cord cutters keeps coming. We now have a look at just how many people have…
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Here Are the Top 5 Reasons People Cancel Cable
Cord cutting is on the rise as more and more people ditch cable to become cord cutters. Almost weekly a new service or device comes out to reach cord cutters. So what is driving people to become cord cutters? DigitalSmiths, a TiVo-owned research company, took a look at the top reasons people are ditching traditional…
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3 Common Mistakes New Cord Cutters Make & How You Can Avoid Them
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. Here are 3 common mistakes new cord cutters make and how you can avoid them. #1 Expecting Cord Cutting to Work…
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One in Five Baby Boomers Have Cut The Cord
TCL, the company behind the popular line of Roku TVs, just released survey results. For a long time, cord cutting has been thought of as something just millennials do but now we have a study that shows that one in five baby boomers becomes a cord cutter. “We believe that streaming is the future of…
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Cord Cutting Puts $25 Billion Back into Americans’ Pockets Every Year
A recent study from cg42, a research firm, took a close look at both what cord cutters are saving and what it is costing pay-TV providers. The study talked with 1,119 US customers and estimated that pay-TV providers lose about $1,248 per cord cutter annually. That’s because the average cord cutter saves $104 a month—about…
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Updated: Cord Cutting 101 – A Beginners Guide to Cord Cutting
Cord cutting can sound scary at first, with a ton of options and decisions to be made, but you will find it is surprisingly easy and you may already have everything you need. We want to be here to help you cancel cable TV and legally stream your content online so you pay less and…
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Cord Cutting Is Taking its Toll on Movie Theaters
More Americans every day are finding out about their options to stream content when and how they want. Now that seems to not only be effecting cable companies but also movie theaters. It was a bad summer for movie theaters as a vast majority of the 29 widely released films disappointed in ticket sales. Blockbuster…