Tag: Cord Cutting
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Over 101 Streaming Services Are Now Available to Cord Cutters
Before cord cutting you really only had three or so options for TV entertainment. You could pick from your local cable TV provider, satellite, or if you were lucky a third option. Now the number of options cord cutters have is really skywriting as cord cutting continues to grow. According to a recent report on…
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Cord Cutting is About to Get 50 Million New Members…
Cord Cutting has never been easier with new streaming services and better over-the-air TV, making ditching traditional pay TV options, such as cable, easier than ever. Now it looks like millions of Americans are about to join in. By 2018 eMarketer predicts that over 60 million Americans will have ditched pay TV and joined the…
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Study: Cord Cutters Willing to Pay for Sports & Pay Well…
A recent study from USC’s Center for the Digital Future shows that 63% of all cord cutters and pay TV subscribers are willing to pay for access to sports online without cable. The study sampled 1,005 people between January 6 and February 2, 2016, and there was a strong correlation—as one would expect—between how much…
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Study: The Top 5 Reasons People Cut the Cord
Recently DigitalSmiths, a Tivo-owned research company, released a study that looked at why people use over-the-top (OTT) services, such as Netflix, rather than a traditional pay TV provider. The reasons may spell doom for big cable companies, such as Comcast. The #1 reason people ditched cable was, by far, “convenience.” Cord cutters said they liked…
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3 Tips to Make Cord Cutting Easier
Cord cutting can be tough at first. You have been 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. When you figure it out you will realize that not only are you saving money but your TV watching is…
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Cable Companies Are Trying to Hide the Growth of Cord Cutting
Cord cutting has been growing month after month and is clearly scaring cable TV providers. Scaring them so much that they are moving to hide the true number of subscribers that are dropping the service. How are cable companies hiding the number of cancelations? According to DSL Reports cable companies have started to count streaming…
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3 Ways to Save Money as a Cord Cutter
Cord cutting for many is all about saving money, and often cord cutters save $1,000 a year by canceling cable TV. But how do you save money after you cancel cable TV? So here are 3 tips we have to save money after you cancel cable TV. #1 Switch ISPs Probably the biggest cost as…
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How Cord Cutting Makes Parenting Easy
If you are like me you have kids who watch TV. With cable TV that means kids seeing ads for toys and other services and, consequently, kids begging for the latest toys or to see the latest movies. It also often means kids getting access to shows you may not want them to see. Even…
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How to Talk to Your Family About Cord Cutting
The holidays are here and will be full of Christmas parties, office parties, family dinners, and other great events. If your family is anything like my family, the topic of cord cutting will come up at least once. This is a great opportunity to tell your family about cord cutting, but it can be difficult…
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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…