Tag: Pay-TV
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Study: Less Than 50% of U.S. Households Will Still Use Pay TV by 2026
The number of consumers shelling out money for traditional pay TV subscriptions is falling with only 60% of U.S. households holding on to their subscription in 2021. New data from Digital TV Research shows that pay TV penetration will fall below 50% of all U.S. households by the year 2026. By comparison, traditional cable subscriptions…
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An Estimated 25% of Households will Drop Pay-TV This Year
Cable TV has been steadily losing subscribers to streaming services for some time now, and it’s not expected to slow down. Newly revised projections show that 1 in 4 households plan to drop their pay-TV subscription in 2020, and nearly 40% of subscribers will drop service by 2025 That means 14 million U.S. broadband households…
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Energy Efficient DVRs Saved Consumers $2 Billion in Electric Bills Last Year
A voluntary energy efficient initiative among pay-TV operators saved consumers $2 billion in electrical usage costs in 2019. Pay TV operators worked with Natural Resources Defense Council and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to make set-top box devices more energy-efficient and moved away from traditional DVRs. As a result, these more energy-friendly devices…
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Cable TV Could Lose 6.2 Million Subscribers in 2020 As Cord Cutting Continues to Grow, New Study Shows
As we’ve gotten the numbers from Quarter 3 reports, we’ve been seeing pay TV subscriber numbers drop across the board. Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon, and AT&T lost a combined 1.7 million subscribers just in the last quarter. Now, analysts at UBS say that those losses will likely continue in 2020. The firm estimates another 6.2 million…
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Editorial: Pay TV Is Repeating the Mistakes Radio Made
If you have been following the current state of radio, you will know it’s not looking that great. Many have said that radio today is what TV will look like in a few years with major television studios going bankrupt just like radio groups such as iHeartRadio are doing now. In the late 2000s, as…
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The Cable TV Industry Was Just Downgraded to Neutral By Barclays
Today was a very bad day for cable TV. Barclays today downgraded the whole cable TV industry to neutral. In their report, Barclays says their earlier more optimistic projects will likely come up $675 million short. Barclays had been assuming a relatively static competitive market for cable TV, now with the growth of cord-cutting and…
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TV Investors Are Growing Concerned about Cord Cutting
It looks like traditional pay-TV providers have a new concern: their investors. As cord cutting has grown a growing list of pay-TV providers, such as AT&T, have started to see their stocks fall. It was recently reported that AT&T lost over 300,000 traditional pay-TV subscribers in just three months. The news has not stopped there.…
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According to the FCC Americans Now Have Fewer Pay-TV Options
This may fall under the category of you already knew this, but Americans now have even fewer traditional pay-TV options. According to the last FCC report on competition in pay TV the number of Americans who have access to four different pay-TV options (cable, telco, and satellite) decreased from 38.1% in 2014 to just 17.9%…
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Pay-TV Services Are Having a Really Bad Year
Right now is likely a bad time to be a cable or satellite TV owner. We have known for some time cord cutting was picking up speed and now it seems that it is really gaining momentum. Now according to Kagan traditional pay-TV has lost 941,000+ subscribers in the second quarter 2017, making the total…
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Pay TV Recently Lost 319,000 Subscribers as Cord Cutting Grows
Well the bad news keeps rolling in for traditional pay-TV providers. In the fourth quarter of 2016 pay-TV providers, such as Comcast, Dish, and Charter, put together lost 319,000 subscribers according to analyst Craig Moffet. “With the results now in from all of the largest operators, it is clear that cord-cutting of legacy distribution services—that…