It's time to cut the cable cord. For budget-conscious consumers, a fast way to reduce spending is to ditch their cable subscription. But cutting the cord requires making tough money decisions.

A person who switches from a pay TV subscription (cable, satellite or telephone company) to an Internet-based streaming service such as Netflix. The purpose of cord cutting is to save a considerable ...

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DirecTV tells angry customers that canceling their subscription over Disney would be useless DirecTV has been telling customers angry about the Disney blackout that canceling and switching to a ...

A growing number of cable cord-cutters are rethinking their decision. Cord-cutting in cable could be turning around. A growing number of people who had abandoned cable subscriptions are changing their ...

About five years ago, I met with a streaming TV executive who cautioned that everything in this business is cyclical. This was during the boom times for services such as Netflix and Hulu, which had ...

Since 2012, more than 10 million people have cut the cord which means dropping paid multichannel subscription services like cable or satellite television. Cord cutting has certainly become more common ...

A new forecast predicts cord cutting will accelerate over the next four years. It started as a trickle. Now it's threatening to become a flood. The phenomenon of cord cutting, or eliminating pay TV ...

Consumers are increasingly saying goodbye to their cable and satellite-TV subscriptions and saying hello to their internet-based rivals. It's not only the desire to save money, but to avoid what many ...

If cutting the cable cord actually saves money for people or streamlines the viewing experience while adding better options at roughly the same price for people not hung up on the money part — and ...