Waiting for the Cord-Cutting Numbers to Show Up? Keep Waiting.

Another year of zero growth for pay TV. Which isn’t good, but it could be worse.
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TV Is Changing Before Our Eyes

I believe we live in a show-based world, and that shows delivered over IP allow for the slow unbundling of television.
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Dish Network’s Charlie Ergen Gets Real: The Full Dive Into Media Interview

A rare hour with one of the most interesting men in media.
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Dish’s Charlie Ergen on Ads, Wireless, Cord-Cutting, Culture and Blockbuster (Video)

Here’s the full video of Charlie Ergen at D: Dive Into Media.
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Dish Chairman: “I Think People Are Cutting the Cord”

“I think we ought to be hooking people on pay TV when they are young,” Charlie Ergen said at D: Dive Into Media. “If we are getting run out of town, I want to get in front of that.”
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TV Everywhere Isn’t: Why You Can’t Watch Monday Night Football on Your iPhone

Pay for cable, and watch whatever you want. Good theory, but still not a reality.
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Cord-Keeping: Pay TV Shrinks for the Quarter, Stays Steady for the Year

Time for another installment of “Cord-Cutting: Fact or Fantasy”?
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Sony, DirecTV Bring Back NFL for Cord-Cutters

It’s not cheap, but it is legal: Every NFL game, on your TV, via your PS3.
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“Yes, There Are Homes That Are Cutting the Cord.”

The growth rate remains below the level of even anemic new household formation, suggesting that penetration is falling even as the Pay TV subscriber base is still growing. And that, in turn, suggests that yes, there are homes that are cutting the cord. Whether they are doing so because of online video options (as the technology press would have it) or poverty/affordability (as we would argue) is unclear.

– Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett in a research note today, analyzing the next-to-no-growth of the pay-TV business

CBS Loves Apple TV, in Theory

Mother’s New Little Helper: Netflix

Intel Can’t Break TV’s Bundles