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posted by cmn32480 on Friday June 16 2017, @02:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the cord-cutters dept.

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According to Leichtman Research Group, the country's largest cable TV providers, representing around 95% of the cable market, had 48.6 million subscribers at the end of March, while Netflix had 50.9 million customers on its home turf.

While cable only represents around 50 percent of the U.S. pay-TV market as a whole, it is by far the most popular way of getting pay-TV in the country. For Netflix to surpass cable is a big step in becoming the number one source of home entertainment. Interestingly, Netflix reached that goal mainly by growing its own subscriber base rather than by having people "cut the cord". Major cable providers only lost 4 million subscribers since Q1 2012 – Netflix added 27 million.

Infographic: Netflix Surpasses Major Cable Providers in the U.S. | Statista

Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/9799/netflix-vs-cable-pay-tv-subscribers/


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @03:14PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @03:14PM (#526462)

    Cable...? What is cable?

    Ohhh... you mean the thing folks pay for because every Sunday they want to yell at professionals from their couch about how they suck at carrying a hand-egg and how this professional called a 'ref' is an idiot and they could do all of this better from their own couch?

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday June 16 2017, @03:27PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 16 2017, @03:27PM (#526465) Journal

    Stop being silly. You can't watch that hand-egg thing from the couch. Real men watch from recliners!! Real women usually have their own recliners. It's to damned hard to get up off of a couch to get another beer, when your own two ass cheeks weigh more than the quarterback on the screen.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 16 2017, @05:12PM (2 children)

      by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 16 2017, @05:12PM (#526513)

      Real men have fridges in the armrests of the recliner.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:07PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @06:07PM (#526541)

        Real men sit in a chair of human flesh.

        • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday June 16 2017, @06:20PM

          by bob_super (1357) on Friday June 16 2017, @06:20PM (#526548)

          You like mine? It was originally a throne made of swords, until Jim slipped.