Remember cord cutting? Once upon a time, observers thought the rise of online video delivery would lead to mass cable and satellite TV cancellations.<\/p>\n
Sure, more than 1.1 million households cut the cord last year, according to a new Convergence Consulting\u00a0report<\/a>.\u00a0But consistent data is hard to find. Nielsen April estimates<\/a> suggest a 1.7% decline in pay-TV households.<\/p>\n To Pivotal’s senior media analyst Brian Wieser<\/a>, that looks more like “cord shaving”.<\/p>\n “Many investors have long foretold concerns around cord cutting. That was always both an incomplete and an incorrect argument,” he tells Beet.TV in this video interview.<\/p>\n “Consumers generally have expressed a need to retain their cord with the incumbent distributor.<\/p>\n “Most of the cable networks are seeing erosion that outpaces reduction in subscriber levels to cable services – we\u2019re seeing the rise of the skinny bundle.<\/p>\n “The stickiest piece of the bundle is the broadband.\u00a0Consumers are not giving that up. They are typically retaining the free-to-air broadcasts networks delivered over those systems.\u00a0It reconcentrates viewing in the hands of the broadcast networks.”<\/p>\n We interviewed him in New York at the Simulmedia PeopleFront<\/a> conference where he was a speaker. Please find more video interviews from the PeopleFront event right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember cord cutting? Once upon a time, observers thought the rise of online video delivery would lead to mass cable and satellite TV cancellations. Sure, more than 1.1 million households cut the cord last year, according to a new Convergence Consulting\u00a0report.\u00a0But consistent data is hard to find. Nielsen April estimates suggest a 1.7% decline in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":38619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[]},"categories":[5703],"tags":[2801],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.beet.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}