Tag: news
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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…
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Pay-TV Companies Lost 470,855 Subscribers in 2nd Quarter 2015
In 2015 pay-TV companies lost a total of 480,855 subscribers in just three months according to the Leichtman Research Group. Verizon FiOS was the only pay-TV company to gain subscribers of the top nine pay-TV providers at just 26,000. DirecTV was the biggest loser dropping 133,000 subscribers followed by Dish (81,000) and Comcast (69,000). This…
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35,000 Americans Cancel Cable TV Every Month
A recent report from the Evercore ISI investment firm showed cable companies lost over 35,000 subscriber every month in the first quarter of 2015. The only bright spot for paid TV is Telco TV providers, like CenturyLink and Verizon, which added customers; however, even accounting for that, the industry as a whole lost over 13,000…