The phenomenon of cord cutting, or eliminating pay TV subscriptions through cable or satellite companies, is about to explode. Soon a fifth of all households will have pulled the plug on pay TV.

Cutting the cord used to be a way to ditch cable TV and save money. Then the big companies jumped in and mucked it up. In 2017, YouTube came in with a sweet offer – most of your favorite cable ...

Cord-cutting has been a thing for a long time. But some new consumer research suggests an escalating aversion to traditional pay-TV service. As the exodus from TV delivered by cable and satellite ...

Cord cutting is on the rise, and many people say they're doing it to save money. But that's not their only motivation, a new study finds.

Cord cutting was so bad last year that pay-TV penetration is down to 1994 levels. It's not a new problem for cable operators, but the coronavirus pandemic seems to have exacerbated it.

After a quarter in which another million customers cut the cord on cable or satellite TV, the research firm eMarketer expects a 4% drop in pay-TV subscribers this year, bringing the total down to ...

Consider finding a local bar that carries the games, or sweet-talking a friend who hasn’t cut the cord yet. Just remember to factor in the cost of a six-pack when you’re doing the cable-free math.

After years of insisting that cord-cutting was neither significant nor worrisome, cable and satellite providers are facing the inevitable: The traditional TV business is now in free fall. In the ...

Another way to cut the cord has gotten much more popular in the last year and a half, and it’s what I did: subscribing to a virtual multichannel video programming distributor, or vMVPD for short.