Tag: news
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Wall Street Is Getting Nervous about Cord Cutting
Cable companies, such as Comcast and Charter, have long been solid investments as far as Wall Street was concerned. Now that all seems to be changing. Yesterday MoffettNathan, an independent research firm that monitors the cable and satellite sectors, called for the downgrade of cable companies from buy to “neutral.” This is no minor change…
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How to Watch Your Local News If You Are a Hulu Live TV Beta Subscriber
Recently Hulu and started to add national feeds of Fox affiliates. These feeds give you access to Fox shows live, but you won’t find your local news in these new markets. (But in some markets Fox will stream the local affiliate.) So what can you do if you want local news but have a national…
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How to Watch News Without Paying For Cable TV
News and other live events are some of the main reasons people still subscribe to cable TV; however, you don’t have to pay for cable to watch news. Cord cutters have a ton of great options—both free and paid—to watch all the news they want. The following is our guide to watching news as a…
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Almost Every Major Cable Company Raised Its Rates or Fees This Year
Every new year seems to mean a new rate hike or new fees for pay-TV providers. This year so many of them came so quickly we missed several of them. Here is a breakdown of new fees and rate hikes from many of the big cable TV services. AT&T If you have AT&T U-verse video…
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Here Are Three Ways Cable Companies Trick You Into Overpaying
If there is anything cable companies are good at it is being confusing. They are experts at getting you to sign up for a bigger package than you need so they can make more money at the same time they trick you into thinking you will be saving money. So here are three ways they…
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Over 600,000 Cable Subscribers Canceled or Downgraded in October
2016 is quickly becoming the year of the cord cutter. Pay-TV providers may still have a huge subscriber base but it is shrinking quickly. For the first time in just one month 621,000 subscribers canceled or downgraded their pay-TV service. We get these numbers from Nielsen and really focus on ESPN, which has long been…
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The Average Cable TV Customer Pays About Double the Advertised Price
If you are already a cord cutter give yourself a pat on the back for dodging another cable price hike. Once again cable providers are trying to milk their customers for every penny they can get with an on average 4% price hike over this time last year. This data comes from the Leichtman Research…
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Cord Cutting is Larger than Charter, TWC, and Bright House Cable Combined
Cord cutting has been seeing steady and consistent growth over the last few years. Just like a snowball rolling downhill, cord cutting has been speeding up and getting larger. All of this as cable companies have, at best, see slight growth and most lose subscribers. So how does cord cutting stack up against the cable…
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We Finally Found Something People Hate More Than Cable…
Do you hate cable TV? We now have a study that confirms that most Americans really do hate their cable company. In a recent study the Public Policy Polling Center interviewed 1,236 Americans to ask them a range of questions. According to the study only two groups rated higher on the dislike category than cable……
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5 Great Roku Channels for News Junkies
Cutting the cord used to mean giving up 24/7 news—something many news junkies were unwilling to do. Now you can cut the cord and keep feeding your need for 24/7 news. Here is our list for cord cutters who want their news fix. #1 NewsON Want local news without getting an antenna or do you…