Nolte: Cord-Cutting Hit Record Highs in 2020
More people cut the cable-satellite TV cord than ever before in 2020, which is pretty remarkable when you consider how the coronavirus kept everyone at home for most of the year.

More people cut the cable-satellite TV cord than ever before in 2020, which is pretty remarkable when you consider how the coronavirus kept everyone at home for most of the year.
Some “27% of U.S. cable TV subscribers plan to end their subscriptions by the end of 2021, which is nearly double from 2020.”
The disgraced Fox News Channel is LOL’n at you, is literally making faces at you when they think you’re not looking; is lying to you, is meddling in elections, censoring the president, rigging polls, and obviously hates you. Why are you making these backstabbers rich?
Verizon has reported a loss of 81,000 pay-TV subscribers for its FiOS service on top of a 25 percent decline in revenue for its media unit.
AT&T lost a staggering 1.4 million pay TV customers in the third quarter as the company’s poorly performing DirecTV unit weighed down its financial results and the cord-cutting trend continued to ravage the industry.
AT&T is expecting to lose over 1 million TV subscribers in the third quarter of this year, amid increased competition from online streaming services. Meanwhile, AT&T’s shareholders are telling the company that buying DirecTV was a big mistake.
At five and seven dollars each, Apple TV+ and Disney+ combined offer something brand new for only $12 per month, compared to Netflix, which now costs $13 a month.
Consumers are ditching their traditional TV subscriptions in massive numbers, spelling more bad news for cable and satellite companies.
What had been 100 million cable TV households dropped to something closer to 80 million as Netflix exploded, and now… Begun the streaming war has.
America’s experts told you Donald Trump couldn’t win, told you the economy was headed into recession, told you cord-cutting would slow down. America’s experts are idiots.
Disney can only hope that to meet its goal of signing up 12 million subscribers over the next five years. But if the trends hold, over those same five years a lot more than 12 million will cut the cord.
Cutting the cord is an effective way to starve the CNNs of the world, an existential threat, and if you love America you will stop reading this and cut the cord right now.
Long before it became a phenomenon, Breitbart News was covering the phenomenon of cord-cutting. Years before the patriotic act of canceling your cable or satellite television package was a thing, Breitbart news was right here laying out all reasons to do exactly that.
Cord cutting is exploding as a record number 32.8 percent of the adult population do not pay for cable TV.
Cord-cutters have won a big victory., A company called Philo is now offering 37 live streaming channels for only $16 a month. The best news is that you are not subsidizing CNN or ESPN.
According to a new study, subscriptions to streaming TV services exploded by 450 percent in less than a decade and pay TV household penetration has collapsed from a years-long hold of 75 percent, to just 63 percent in 2017.
One would think with the NFL, college football, and the NBA all in action, that it would be a great time to be a sports cable network.
With cable and satellite television currently in a slow-motion death spiral, America’s left-wing entertainment titans are hoping they can fool us into subsidizing their rigged business model, even as we move online. The launch of Philo TV shows that the free market is beating these corrupt titans.
The only way patriotic Americans can forever destroy the likes of CNN, MSNBC, ESPN, and a whole herd of left-wing entertainment corporations is to cut the cord, meaning cancel your cable or satellite package. Thankfully, that message appears to be gaining steam; last quarter, a whopping one million patriots cut the cable cord.
There is only one way — one! — to finally and forever destroy Hollywood and much of the mainstream media. You have to cut your cable or satellite cord. You have to cancel your pay TV package. The one-legged stool propping up ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, Disney, MTV, and the entire Tinseltown crime syndicate is you paying for cable TV.
The awesome news is that cord-cutting *is* accelerating. There is no question about it.
Almost all of the cultural and political power possessed by Hollywood and the mainstream media is held up by a one-legged stool, a single leg that gets shakier by the month — this increasingly fragile appendage we call the Pay TV Package. Going forward, for reference purposes, the Pay TV Package is your cable or satellite bundle, which brings with it hundreds of channels and a monthly bill that dings you for $1000 to $1500 a year.
Cable television is “failing” as a business, according to a cable industry lobbyist, as more and more people switch to streaming services and watching videos on their phones.
American consumers are dumping traditional cable packages at a faster rate than ever before, electing instead to purchase cheaper and more customizable digital TV service, according to a new study.
Amazon will start to ship television sets with Fire TV built in as early as next month, according to a report.
Charter Communications, the second largest cable provider in America, posted mixed results in its first-quarter earnings report Tuesday, reporting an increase in income and revenue as the company lost more pay TV subscribers than expected.
Dish Network suffered a steep decline in pay subscribers in its first fiscal quarter, the satellite TV company revealed Monday.
“SportsCenter” anchor Linda Cohn stated on Thursday what Breitbart News has been asserting for years: that ESPN’s constant insertion of politics into their covering of sports news contributed to the Worldwide Leader in Sports Entertainment’s massive loss of subscribers over the last five years.
Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.
MTV will take over VH1 Classic and re-brand it MTV Classic, bringing with it a slate of television shows like Beavis and Butthead and Daria that helped fuel the network’s growth in the 1990s.