Tag: Spectrum
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T-Mobile is Still Waiting to Get Valuable Wireless Spectrum, and Has Even Offered to Bargain For It
T-Mobile has been waiting for more than a year to get its hands on a swath of spectrum it spent $304 million to get — valuable radio airwaves that could expand its 5G home internet service and widen its wireless coverage. But the wait has dragged on so long that the wireless carrier is trying…
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Could Comcast & Spectrum Block the New Sports-Only Live TV Service from Fox, Disney, & Warner Bros. Discovery? – Ask Luke
This month Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to launch a new sports streaming service that will give live access to sports networks like ESPN, FS1, and BTN. Now a growing number of companies are objecting to and may even try to block the service. This includes several cable TV companies that are…
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Spectrum To Buy Up Another Small Cable TV Company
Spectrum is set to purchase a small cable TV company in Kentucky as it looks for ways to bolster its shrinking base of customers. On Tuesday, the city council voted in agreement to sell Bardstown Connect along with its customer base and infrastructure to Charter Communications, Spectrum’s parent company. No timeline has been set for…
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Altice’s Optimum Lost 267,000 Cable TV and 114,000 Internet Customers in 2023
Cable and internet provider Optimum continues to bleed customers at an alarming rate even as it lost money. The company reported fourth-quarter results that showed subscribers were dropping cable TV, broadband, and phone services. For the fourth-quarter, it lost 27,000 internet subscribers, 62,200 cable TV subscribers, and 57,400 phone subscribers. For the year, those totals…
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Spectrum Cable TV Needs to Renew Its Contract With Paramount-Owned TV Channels & Bally Sports RSNs Soon
Are you a Spectrum cable TV customer? Unless Spectrum reaches a new deal you could lose some Paramount and RSN channels this spring. Charter Communications, Spectrum’s parent company, has a renewal coming up with Bally Sports and Paramount. If they fail to reach deals, we could see a second and third round of massive channel…
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Cord Cutting Today: Spectrum Not Afraid of 5G Home Internet, Pluto TV’s 25 Movie Channels, & More
Do you want to know what’s going on in the busy world of cord cutting? Every Monday through Friday, we post a daily recap video on YouTube covering the biggest stories on the topic. Check out today’s video and if you want to learn more, you can read each story I talk about in the…
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Cord Cutting is Squeezing Spectrum’s Cable TV Business, and Even Wall Street is Noticing
The cracks are starting to show with Spectrum and its parent, Charter Communications, and Wall Street is starting to sound the alarm. On Monday, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan analysts both downgraded the investment rating of Charter’s stock, according to Investing.com. Both financial institutions cited the company’s financial and customer-based losses, slow growth, high costs,…
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Comcast & Spectrum Lost More Than 3 Million Cable TV Customers in 2023
We are finally getting a more accurate idea of just how hard cord cutting hit cable TV in 2023. Multiple cable TV companies announced that they would shutdown TV service. And, we are still waiting on many cable TV companies to report numbers, but the two largest cable TV companies lost over 3 million customers.…
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The Recap: Nickelodeon’s App Shuts Down, Spectrum Takes a Hit, and More
YouTube TV offered some improvements for users, while earnings season rolled along with a myriad of tech companies reporting their results. Also reporting earnings was Spectrum, which felt the bite of 5G home internet service. The Federal Communications Commission, meanwhile, warned that it may need to stop taking new applications for the Affordable Connectivity Program…
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Comcast Is No Longer the Largest Cable TV Company in the United States
For years Comcast has been the largest cable TV company in the United States. Now Spectrum is king: the new largest cable TV company in the country. Spectrum’s jump to the number one spot was achieved by not losing as many customers as Comcast. Spectrum lost more than 1,018,000 million TV customers in 2023. That…