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America Cuts the Chord: Cable TV Household Penetration Collapsed Double Digits In 2017
Breitbart ^ | March 21, 2018 | John Nolte

Posted on 03/21/2018 6:19:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode

According to a new study, subscriptions to streaming TV services exploded by 450 percent in less than a decade. This has resulted in surge of cord-cutting, those who cancel their cable or satellite packages (pay TV). The result is that pay TV household penetration has collapsed from a years-long hold of 75 percent, to just 63 percent in 2017.

In 2009, only 10 percent of homes subscribed to a streaming TV service (Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc.). By 2017, that number surged to 55 percent, or a 450 percent increase.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2017review; cable; chordcutting; chordtangent; cordcutting; hollywood; television
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To: BuffaloJack

I did the same last summer. Don’t miss it at all.


41 posted on 03/21/2018 7:35:03 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: bitt

Roku. We’sa doin it!


42 posted on 03/21/2018 7:36:31 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: EdnaMode

I need this info


43 posted on 03/21/2018 7:38:08 PM PDT by krunkygirl
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Disney and Comcast are the parent corps of the malevolent MSM. Neither deserves a penny from the Citizen.


44 posted on 03/21/2018 7:41:48 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: joshua c

a la carte: cobblecord


45 posted on 03/21/2018 7:45:30 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Justa

Who do you get internet from


46 posted on 03/21/2018 7:49:03 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: BenLurkin

Haha. That was a typo on my part. :D


47 posted on 03/21/2018 7:50:59 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: AFreeBird

Where do you get internet from?


48 posted on 03/21/2018 7:52:55 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (WINNING! !!)
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To: EdnaMode
Cable monopoly played strong handed for far too long. Their customers hate them, nobody wants their product even at a cheaper price. People want the cable company out of their lives.

Anything they try now is far too late.

49 posted on 03/21/2018 7:55:52 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’ll try that.


50 posted on 03/21/2018 8:21:45 PM PDT by umgud
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To: EdnaMode
Cut the cord January 2017. Netflix, Hulu, and OTA antenna with 70+ channels.

I don't miss hundreds of channels of crap loaded with commercials one bit!

51 posted on 03/21/2018 8:24:45 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (Time for all 2nd Amendment supporters to boycott liberals.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I believe that this chord cutting is simply Cable TV packages. The Cable TV companies are simply becoming Internet Service Providers. Phone companies too, I guess.


52 posted on 03/21/2018 8:27:09 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: HonkyTonkMan
I wouldn't count on them going out too soon.

Currently the cable and satellite providers force feed their customers, not only fixed content, but at viewing times you may not be able to or want to watch at.

But some of them will shift their business models to an a la carte format and survive.

Some companies will stay ahead of the technology curve and make it okay, while others may make the decision too late and have to close their doors. And new companies will replace them with better content and bells and whistles all the time.

Some of them will purchase or partner with the streaming services or start their own.

It's like the newspaper business. It's dying fast. But the internet versions will take their place. I haven't had a real newspaper in my hands to read for 15 years. But I still read parts of newspapers online almost daily.

Business in a capitalistic system is not static. It is dynamic.

53 posted on 03/21/2018 8:32:28 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: EdnaMode

Cable TV is full of liberal propaganda and it costs too much.


54 posted on 03/21/2018 8:41:03 PM PDT by Angels27
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To: sushiman

Does your viewing mean the whole family can sit down and watch your programming??


55 posted on 03/21/2018 8:57:01 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christi Rey! Public Education & Academia = farm team for more Marxists coming. Infinitum.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
Does this also count people who just use cable to access the internet?

That's precisely the group.

The cord being cut is a virtual cord, not a physical coaxial or glass fiber cord. The cord is the TV portion of your cable service. You cancel that and receive your video over the internet — via YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. You can put the cost of the canceled TV subscription towards a faster broadband connection.

Unless everyone is using their cell phones to watch movies.

That's certainly doable, and you don't have to watch the video on the phone's tiny screen. However, if the video content is coming over your phone's LTE connection, you'll need a big data allowance in your phone plan.

Some folks also get their landline phone service from the cable company. This is another cord to cut. Using, for example, Google Voice, you can run your landline phone service over the internet portion of your cable service.

If you cut both cords, the only one left is internet, and it's carrying your phone and TV as well as your web-surfing. That's more rational, because, in the end, phone, TV, and web-surfing are all just data.

56 posted on 03/21/2018 9:14:09 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: EdnaMode

I called Direct TV a year ago and told them I was going to disconnect unless they lowered our payment. They immediately dropped it from $68 to $12.40 for 12 months. This month I called since that deal expired and they gave me a one month extension at $14.40. I’m supposed to call back on the 26th to renegotiate. We are likely just going to dump the cable and hook up an antenna and then subscribe to Netflix.


57 posted on 03/21/2018 10:06:15 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: umgud

Had the same bundle. Kept the landline and fast internet, dumped the TV service and bought a ROKU Ultra. Signed up with Hulu live and Amazon Prime. Saving $100 per month right off the bat. The amount of streaming channels available thru Roku is unbelievable and many are free.
Must admit there is a bit of a learning curve to navigating thru all that is available.


58 posted on 03/21/2018 10:26:46 PM PDT by gdzla (Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo)
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To: sushiman

I’ve got you situation in reverse, sushiman.

My wife is from Sasebo and so we get the TVJapan satellite station. Next month, DishNetwork is dumping TVJapan and AT&T is picking it up on their DirecTV satellite.

Fortunately our cable provider here in Georgia can supply TVJapan. I watch no U.S. TV, but I get a kick out of Japanese programming as a diversion, such as the Taiga dramas.


59 posted on 03/21/2018 11:36:17 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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Maybe I’m just about the only one but, I get sling or Vue for the 4 months per year of college football season and I get nothing the other 8 months.

Oh I watch plenty of TV....documentaries mostly. It’s just that I can download just about any TV program I want from YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, or torrents. I store them on one terabyte external hard drives until I watch them then delete. I watch what I want, when I want for free with no commercials. I’ve been doing it for years. There is lots of great free content out there. Plenty of good programs from British, Canadian, Australian channels in addition to US channels.


60 posted on 03/22/2018 5:18:37 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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