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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) by KGIII on Friday June 16 2017, @09:55PM (5 children)

    by KGIII (5261) on Friday June 16 2017, @09:55PM (#526646) Journal

    Is that your memory having issues? That is not meant to be derogatory. Commercials have always been on cable TV.

    Cable TV got its start from people living in areas where they couldn't get reception. Depending, they'd form a co-op, set up a mast antenna, and distribute the signal ove coaxial cable. A limited number of premium channels would have no commercial breaks, during the show. Some would only then include adverts for their own content and would do so between shows.

    In regards to the US, I can speak for nowhere else, cable TV has a,ways carried commercials. There wasn't even a mechanism to remove them, as cable also supplied OTA programs. They would have just had dead air space. There are myriad citations online. It's a strange belief that I don't understand. Cable, at least in the US, hasn't ever been commercial free, as they always carried OTA programs. The motivation for cable was a lack of reception.

    I'd be quite curious about how it would work, otherwise.

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  • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:52AM (3 children)

    by deimtee (3272) on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:52AM (#526820) Journal

    In Oz there were 0 to 5 OTA channels depending on location. Almost anywhere cable rolled out it would have been at least 3 channels. Cable offered 30 or 40 more channels, as well as the OTA channels. When people say they were ad-free, they usually are not including the rebroadcast OTA channels.

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    • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:58AM (2 children)

      by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:58AM (#526824) Journal

      That they don't include them is hardly my fault. I don't think I'm to blame for that? I'm guilty of many things, but probably not that one.

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      • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:29AM (1 child)

        by deimtee (3272) on Saturday June 17 2017, @05:29AM (#526834) Journal

        Not blaming you, just pointing out a miscommunication. At least, in Oz anyway.
        Although OTA is rebroadcast through the cable, it is almost never included as part of the discussion on cable content. The rebroadcasting is merely treated as an inprovement of OTA signal reception.

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        • (Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 17 2017, @07:01AM

          by KGIII (5261) on Saturday June 17 2017, @07:01AM (#526852) Journal

          I should have included the smiley face.

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:24PM

    by mhajicek (51) on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:24PM (#527002)

    The cable-only channels were commercial free. This was a major selling point that the door to door cable salesman talked about, and a few years later I was quite miffed when they started having commercials.

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