Posted on 08/10/2017 12:10:13 PM PDT by tje
While the rate of cord cutting during the second quarter wasn't quite as aggressively dire as many analysts predicted, the latest wave of TV subscribers lost by the traditional cable TV industry wasn't what you'd call good for the pay TV industry, either. Wall Street research firm MoffettNathanson predicts that once tallied, the sector lost about 1 million pay TV subscribers last quarter, with the losses hitting Dish Network, DirectTV, and AT&T particularly hard.
Dish for example lost another 196,000 subscribers on the quarter, and that tally includes the additions seen to the company's Sling TV streaming video services (which Dish refuses to break out specifically to lesson the apparent impact).
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Cable TV will soon end up in the dustpile along with dial phones, landlines and Palm Pilots.
Yeah - like I am going to run my business from a mobile phone hotspot.
In the fwiw dept, we cut the cord 4 years ago.
Bruce Springsteen had a song, 57 channels and nothing on.
Same same.
5.56mm
I am wasting my money on Frontier FIOS, $151 a month. It was only $88 when I signed up for internet and cable a few years back, but now they are gouging me and I am seeking other options. I wish we could just pick the channels we want and pay accordingly.
97% of what is on any given channel is pure crap. I have no interest in the Kardashians, “reality” shows about teenage boys who say they are a girl, or sitcoms about gay people. I only watch the local Fox sports channel for my Angels games, some programs on the DIY channel and the classic movie channels. Everything else is crap.
The entire bundled garbage biz model was a colossal con-job. And now they’re looting and jacking up the rates of what’s left of their customer base to keep those profits ups.
Years ago I spoke with the cable con-man on the phone. I told him I do not use, cannot understand nor do I want 75 percent of the garbage channels they had me paying for ..All he could do is parrot the song and dance corporate told him to say.
I did what millions of others did and ditched the greedy ba$tards!
I ditched the land line a looonnng time ago, but cut direct tv the end of last month.
Direct TV was becoming a plethora of infomercials and Spanish language channels along with some commie lib programs sprinkled in. Nothing entertaining or educational.
I’m now set up with my Roku, my TiVo and an HD antenna. Hubs has an XM subscription so he can listen to the news and sports to his heart’s content.
Fired them...I have no TV anymore....
And I don't miss it at all..............
yeah I have kodi on my phone and tablet. I rip my dvds to a NAS and then select the video content from there in kodi and screenshare/broadcast the image from my phone onto the television
Wish we could cut the chord. My husband wants to watch baseball and the only way is with cable. Comcast is expensive and we watch very few channels.
I did it 5 years ago. I just download TV and movies to a hard drive and watch through my blue ray player for free.
except that ISPs are throttling “unlimited” plans past 25GB and in some cases past 10GB
Totally do not understand why people would have any TV input in the home, cable, dish or antenna.
Business is different.
Individuals can get by very nicely without cable, landlines, or an ISP.
Chord = cord. :-(
Where I live (rural area about 7 minutes away from a small, yet urban city) you only have two options for ISP:
1. a local DSL
2. satellite
I have option 1. I pay $75 for the “business” plan which is the same as the higher speed residential but they give you priority when there’s an outage.
I WISH we had fiber!!
I’m interested in learning more about alternatives to conventional cable and satellite.
I hear these terms, such as FIOS or Roku stick, and I don’t know what these terms means, or what equipment is involved to work with them.
I hear that there is an “Amazon Fire” TV service, but I don’t know how that works. Ditto for Netflix and other “streaming services”. I’m unfamiliar with the technology involved.
Having said that, not complaining. Not at all. Just saying, lots of people here are happy with their alternatives to the cable company. And it’s piqued my interest.
And as more alternatives come up, and more people such as myself, who don’t have an affinity for hi tech gadgetry, learn about the alternatives, more and more will disconnect from cable/satellite. It’s inevitable.
My hubby is a sports NUT too, but since he started his own biz he has no TIME to watch sports!! He can listen on his XM subscription during work out of his work van or via his smart phone.
He loves the Yankees for baseball and the Steelers for football. We did finally cut the cord last month. I had been trying to persuade him for YEARS!
We even took a hit for disconnect fees way back when—$200 because he found out the YES network wasn’t on DISH but only on DIRECT TV. Then we had the Sunday NFL Ticket package—which is astronomical and they automatically sign you up every year for the full price on DIRECT TV.
Cable companies will have to do something. There is no way they can continue operating. So they will just raise the cost of the internet to equal what it costs for cable and internet. They did that with hard lines. You save zero not getting a hard line.
lilypad, every 6 months we have to CALL Dish and threaten to leave if they raise our rates. We get it cut back but probably not as much as a newbie. We were thinking about going with AT&T but it’s on this list too. What other choices are there? I don’t understand all this streaming stuff. I just wish we could find something where we give them the list of the shows and channels we want, nothing more, nothing less. Guess we’ll never see that happen.
I miss my 10” C-band dish. I could purchase À la carte, the channels I actually wanted and spent less that $80 a year. I would only purchase ESPN only during football season.
The small dishes killed C-band. Since that happened, I have been streaming from the internet.
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