Cord Cutting – FreeCast

The Cord Cutter’s Dilemma: Why So Few People...

Every few months a new study comes out showing that a sizable percentage of pay-TV subscribers are fed up with their service. They feel like they are paying too much money for too many channels they never watch, on a system that feels like it hasn’t been updated since 1997. (Or, to put it another […]

How Media Companies Will Live when Cable TV...

Technologies that were once ubiquitous, once synonymous with television, are quite literally dying before our eyes. Cable and satellite TV continue to hemorrhage subscribers. And those subscribers are quite content to get their entertainment content through other means. This trend is wreaking havoc on the trillion-dollar media industry, which is in urgent need of a […]

SelectTV Prepares for a Landslide of New Users...

FreeCast’s introduction of cord-cutting kits proves timely as exodus from cable ramps up. FreeCast has revised growth expectations upward for the next 12 months on the heels of news from researchers at FocusVision and Zanthus, who forecast that over 40% of cable and satellite customers could cut or reduce their services during 2017. FreeCast’s recently […]

Top 5 products for cord cutters at CES

If CES 2016 is any indication, the future is only looking brighter for cord cutters. While 2015 brought loads of new streaming options for those looking to ditch cable, sorting through all the options and finding content became quite the difficult task. Look for that to change in 2016. The top cord-cutting products at CES […]

Cord-Cutters and TV Executives Could Both Be Dreaming...

FreeCast’s Guide offers consumers the convenience they seek without creating competition for the TV networks. As the consumer-driven transition of the television experience to wifi devices continues, one of the fastest growing tech/media startups is solving the problem currently facing consumers: the management of so many media titles, services, and options now available to […]

Rabbit TV Plus Growth Matches Pay-TV Subscriber Losses

The largest quarterly loss of cable and satellite TV subscribers highlights the benefits to new web TV and video providers. Traditional TV providers continue to lose subscribers, with the top 10 shedding over 400,000 subscribers this past quarter alone. While cord-cutting has been acknowledged for some time now, these are worst-ever numbers for the pay-TV […]

FreeCast Touts Rabbit TV Plus as a Cord-Cutting...

As more consumers look to dump pay-TV, Rabbit TV promises to anchor a web TV experience. The number of consumers who have already cut the cord, or plan to do so in the near future, continues to rise. Each month, new devices and services hit the market, with each one making it ever easier to […]

Cord-Cutting Speeds Up as TV Providers Post Q1...

Video subscribers are disappearing even faster than expected for cable and satellite companies. TV providers continue to hemorrhage video subscribers as Q1 saw a substantial uptick in cord-cutting. Combined, the cable and satellite TV providers lost over 150,000 video subscribers. Dish Network was by far the biggest loser, shedding around 200,000 subscribers, though this is […]

TiVo says Dish Dumping More Likely than Cord-Cutting

The DVR company claims that most cord-cutters are actually abandoning satellite TV services rather than cable. Following a study of their own customers, DVR-maker TiVo has revealed some interesting information on the make up of so-called “cord cutters.” One in particular is that the term “cord cutters” may be a bit of a misnomer. TiVo’s […]

Comcast Bandwidth Subscribers Top Video Subscribers for First...

New numbers from Comcast all but confirm cord-cutting trend. The nation’s largest cable company may now be better known as the nation’s largest internet company, as Comcast’s internet subscribers have surpassed cable TV subscribers for the first time. The numbers don’t lie, and they tell a clear story of what is happening in the pay-TV […]