Pay TV Hasn't Gone Away (Yet)

November 4, 2010 at 3:49 pm PT

The Associated Press does the math no one else wants to do, and puts some valuable perspective on the “Is cord-cutting real?” debate: So far this quarter, pay TV subscriptions are up–but just barely. The AP tallies results from seven of the nine biggest cable, satellite and telco companies, and finds that video subscriptions are up by 55,700, a 0.3 percent increase.

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Once it does, expect a tsunami like the one that hit AOL when people moved to broadband and started canceling their dial up subscriptions.
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I don’t know that it’ll happen with TV the same way it did with internet, because the trade-off isn’t identical. “Free TV” isn’t exactly the same as “paid TV,” so I don’t see a whole mass of people ditching their Dish Network subscriptions in lieu of Hulu videos.
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I’m trying to cut the cord and pay for content, but the vast majority of content available via streaming is stale. I just don’t get why they won’t make it available.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=197100013 Michael Scott Sievers

They won’t make it available because they get a LOT more money through contracts with pay-TV providers like Dish and Comcast.