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New findings from GfK MRI reveal 97 percent have no plan to cut the cord.

Cable, satellite continue to bleed subscribers, according to Kagan

Despite the industry’s focus on streaming and on-demand video, linear TV dominates Americans’ time spent viewing and is on the rise, according to a new report from Nielsen.

U.S., U.K., and Filipino consumers say both traditional pay-TV and OTT providers can do better

Top MVPDs shed a net 515K in year-ago quarter, Leichtman Research Group says

In North America and Europe, traditional pay-TV providers are fighting back with their own OTT services

Majority want to continue to access local channels, regardless of the plan they choose

The average household is paying nearly double in subscription costs to pay TV since 2000, representing an inflation-adjusted annual rate of 74 percent, according to Kagan.

Nearly half of OTT subscribers use an antenna, according to LRG report

With so many UIs now resembling smartphones, users are finding it increasingly difficult to navigate the converged TV landscape.

Fears among pay-TV providers about the growing trend of cord cutting are being offset by a new phenomenon in which viewers are adding OTT services on top of existing pay-TV subscriptions, even when they spend more overall.

Amplifying a growing trend, 21 percent of U.S. pay TV customers say they subscribe to an online video service from their MVPD, up from 10 percent a year ago, according to a Parks Associates study.

16 percent increase since 2015 coincides with decline in pay-TV subscriptions

The latest from three separate research organizations reveals traditional pay-TV is in decline

With a new focus on acquiring content that was previously relegated to pay TV services, social media and tech giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google are focusing more on disrupting traditional pay TV, director of USC’s Annenberg School of Media Innovation Lab and author Jonathan Taplin told an audience at the opening keynote of the NCTC Winter Educational Conference.

While many fret over the future of pay TV in a world that increasingly is going digital, the overall global numbers of pay TV subscribers increased by 60 million from the third quarter of 2016 to the third quarter of 2017

While there is an expectation that virtual operators like SlingTV and DirecTV Now will continue to eat into traditional pay-TV services share of the market, The Diffusion Group projects that there will be less to go around by the time 2030 arrives.

The growth of internet-delivered pay-TV services in the third quarter of 2017 weren’t enough to counteract the loss of subscribers to cable, satellite and phone companies.