Cord cutting is a term associated with the act of cancelling traditional cable services and choosing to build entertainment options piece by piece. Some people are happy to watch only TV available from over the air TV signals via an antenna but many other engage with free and premium streaming services with a variety of devices and smart TV systems. The term will most likely be sunsetted as more people adjust to a post bundle world.
According to research group TDG Research, Hulu’s Live TV offering has as many subscribers as DirecTV Now. That is quite a feat for the service, which even a year ago only had about 450k subscribers. Not that it is some kind of little engine that could tale. Hulu is owned by behemoths, Disney, Newscorp, Comcast and…
Sling TV is growing even as other skinny bundle services, namely DirecTV Now struggles. Dish’s streaming service closed 2018 with 2.42 million subscribers after adding 47,000 in the fourth quarter of the year. The subscriber growth though is not equal to the number of satellite subscribers Dish lost which was 381,000. This is the new reality…
How to Cut Cable with Roku is part of a multi-part series that the Streaming Advisor will be covering this year. It is intended to let people know more about streaming products and services and help untangle some of the confusion associated with cord cutting and streaming that plagues the industry. If you have been…
The CW app might be on its way to becoming a live TV Portal. Richard Chadwell, an occasional contributor on The Streaming Advisor, temporarily spotted an option on the CW app labeled watch live next to the heading for shows. This option was gone as of this morning but the idea that the CW could…
How will people watch TV in 10 years? Most, likely a number of ways. Industry observers have seen the growth of interest in OTA distribution growing as people either cut cable or simply never get it in the first place in new households. There are still millions of people with pay TV packages, in fact…
