Cut the Cord & Watch the Sparks Fly!
There’s only one relationship we want to see you end this Valentine’s Day – and that’s your relationship with the cable company! Just think of all the things you could do to better your REAL-LIFE relationship if you stopped shelling out $80 a month to the cable and satellite companies… Most companies are trying to […]
Why should you cut the cord? See what Time Warner is up to these days.
Time Warner Cable subscribers, brace for rate hikes Prices for most of the firm’s TV services are set to rise. The move comes as it cuts a deal for a baseball channel and as the cable industry loses subscribers. David Lazarus January 29, 2013 The latest rate hikes also come amid ongoing losses in the […]
Take Back the Man Cave
Super Bowl Sunday is just around the corner – two days away to be exact. Are you ready? Did you shop for snacks? Good. Did you stock the fridge? Excellent. Did you clean the man cave? Well… there’s still time. Sounds like you’re just about set! I have just one last question for you – […]
Pre-Order your DB8e Today!
Shhh… do you hear that? It is the sound of every cable company executive weeping over the announcement of our latest gadget—the all new DB8e HDTV antenna. But really, who could blame them? The DB8e is truly the first of its kind. It will allow people who live in challenging environments to target transmitting towers […]
Mickey Mouse is a Cord-Cutter
Why pay $80 a month for cable, when you can meet Prince Charming for just $7.99? We all know that Prince Charming would not need to ask for a long term commitment, because he realizes that if it is a good relationship. You will never leave. Cable companies were hoping to make you feel like you had […]
Study: Cord-Cutters and Cord-Nevers Will Soar to 17.2 Million U.S. Homes by 2017
Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 10:18 AM ET | Posted by Will Richmond New research from The Diffusion Group forecasts that the number of “pay-TV refugees” – U.S. homes subscribing to broadband, but not to pay-TV services – will increase 58%, from 10.9 million in 2012 to 17.2 million in 2017. Pay-TV refugees consist of both […]
As pay-TV operators embrace the model, OTT comes of age.
Michelle Clancy | 17-11-2012 Over-the-top appears to be coming of age, as consumption hits critical mass, the revenue opportunity expands and the business model continues to work its way into mainstream carrier tactics. The research into the area is coalescing: the OTT market is set to be worth $37 billion by 2017, according to new […]
Still Hate Your Cable Company? 292,000 Defections Show You’re Not Alone.
By Rick Aristotle Munarriz, The Motley Fool Posted 6:00AM 11/10/12 | One thing is becoming clear as cable companies and satellite television providers shell out their latest quarterly financials: Americans are fed up with their ever-growing bills for premium TV. With the exception of DirecTV’s (DTV) — which gained 67,000 net subscribers during the quarter […]
Pay-TV sees more subscriber drains in Q3, opening the door for OTT.
Michelle Clancy | 12-11-2012 The North American pay-TV industry’s subscriber numbers in the third quarter continued to deliver bad news, with subscriber totals across segments missing targets. Overall, Sanford C Bernstein’s Craig Moffett said that operators, including privately-held ones, lost a combined 127,000 subscribers in the quarter. Analysts say that the continuing softness will drive […]
The growing popularity of Web TV
If anyone needed any convincing about the power of web TV, the recent news that YouTube now serves more search queries than the Yahoo and Live search engines has certainly emphasised the point. Moreover, this reflects the continuing dominance of Google, which owns the video streaming site. In November, YouTube received 2.79 billion search queries, […]
Trending Up
Tom Butts Editor-in-Chief tbutts@nbmedia.com I’m not a fan of tired ole clichés but humor me on this one. I’m only going to say it once: to paraphrase an old saying, “rumors of the demise of broadcast television have been greatly exaggerated.” We’ve seen the signs for months, even years. Sales of over the air antennas […]
17.8 percent or 20.7 million U.S. households rely on OTA for their broadcast television viewing.
Michelle Clancy ©RapidTVNews | 20-06-2012 Attention cord-cutting enthusiasts: a full 17.8% of US TV households, or 20.7 million of them, now rely on free, over-the-air reception for broadcast TV, according to a study by GfK Media. That translates to 46 million to 54 million Americans out of the nation’s 300 million citizens. Five years ago, […]