Tag: Cord Cutting
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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…
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Everyone Is Lying About the True Growth of Cord Cutting
I’m sure by now most cord cutters have heard that pay-TV lost over 800,000 subscribers just the second quarter of 2016; however, that is only half of the story. To really get an idea of the true losses pay-TV companies are experiencing you must look at a number of factors including new housing stats and work…
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My Top 5 Tips for Cord Cutters New & Old
Leaving cable TV to become a cord cutter can be a scary move. All the content is there but how you get it is very different; however, when you figure it out, cord cutting is an amazing experience that goes far beyond just saving money. So here are 5 tips to help you get the…
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How My Family Saves Over $2,000 a Year with Cord Cutting
So I thought it was about time to give a full update on how my family is doing as cord cutters. Now my family does not only cut the cord on cable but we’ve also ditched landlines and even cut the cord from our old cell phone provider. Altogether we save over $2,000 a year…
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Stream Services Now Generate More Revenue Than Comcast
Cord cutting, which has seen steady growth over the years, has taken off in 2016. Now it looks like streaming services are starting to see the reward of their investments. Strategy Analytics, a research firm, projects that OTT video revenue will surpass $30 billion by 2020, up from $19.45 billion in 2016, with steady double…
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5 Things Only Cord Cutters Understand
Cord cutting is a very different world—something cable subscribers just don’t understand. So let’s have some fun today and look at 5 things cord cutters know and love but cable subscribers cannot understand. #1 Binge Watching Is The Only Way to Watch a Show Waiting a week or even a few months for the next…
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Editorial: The Current State of Cord Cutting
I started this website back in 2014 with the hopes of giving a different look at cord cutting. Remember just 2 years ago most news on cord cutting was that cord cutting was not real. Every month it seemed there was a post about how cord cutting was just a few kids pirating content. Now…