24% of American adults report they do not have cable or satellite TV
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RIP ESPN 1979-2025:
Some other good research in there about broadband at home usage and mobile usage trends.
The changes in home broadband and smartphone connectivity are not the only shifting trends in connectivity among Americans. Some 15% of adults now qualify as “cord cutters” – meaning they once had either cable or satellite TV but no longer do. Another 9% never had either cable or satellite service.
Young adults are the most likely cord cutters; 19% of adults between the ages of 18 and 29 have severed the ties that they once had with cable or satellite service. Another 16% of young adults say they have never had pay TV in the first place.
Some 71% of those without cable or satellite say they lack these services in part because the cost is too expensive, while 64% say they can access the content they want using an over-air antenna, on the internet or using streaming services.http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/12/21/home-broadband-2015/
Some other good research in there about broadband at home usage and mobile usage trends.
It's already pretty easy to go without cable TV. Hopefully it continues to get easier in the future.
Yeah, ESPN really fucked up its future by making its carriage fee so insanely high.
If you're a cable network, it hurts a lot more to lose a subscriber when you're charging $6.61 per month than it does if you're a network that's charging 25 cents per month.
If you're a cable network, it hurts a lot more to lose a subscriber when you're charging $6.61 per month than it does if you're a network that's charging 25 cents per month.
I tried convincing my mom to drop her cable, but Comcast basically has her in a deathgrip. Plus she finds it more convenient to just watch shit live instead of setting up her computer.
I'm fucked as both my teams have deals and games are blacked out without cable. I would have cut the cord years ago
as more and more AU sports start getting their streaming options setup right, i'm less and less inclined to ever re-sub to cable.
I can now get all the AU cricket streamed, i just now need Rugby to get their house in order.
I can now get all the AU cricket streamed, i just now need Rugby to get their house in order.
I don't subscribe to TV since I moved out to my own place. Realised I hardly watch TV anyways. And if I did it's mostly just for sports or some stuff on the public channels. The latter easy to watch back on the internet for free. And for football I can subscribe and just chromecast that shit to my TV. For the rest we have Netflix and other sources.
