Comments on: Time Warner CEO: Cord cutters not an issue, “cord nevers” might be

By: Don

Don — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:35:40 +0000

I’m getting ready to cut the cord too. So tired of paying 100 bucks for just junk. Oh yes my household brings in for 100,000.00 per year so I guess I’m not low income either

By: EvanR

EvanR — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:54:50 +0000

Cable? What’s that? I’m a “TV never”

By: Sheri Herman

Sheri Herman — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:11:31 +0000

Thanks for penning this article. Having been in the cable industry a long time, I just commented on a different article here and was startled to see my comment so similar to Jeff Bewkes. Guess I learned a few things. The only issue I have with this article is the cable industry bowing to the a la carte model. It’s the networks who will push back hard on this. Getting paid a license fee per subscriber available to that network – not actually watching it – is what makes these networks able to pilot new shows. I can see them offering an a la cart option on top of existing carriage, but not replacing it.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:07:58 +0000

Except that Romney’s statement was accurate (see results of election and current economic and racial climate).

By: Groucho

Groucho — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:50:01 +0000

I think that his data source may be flawed…when you cut the cable, the rep asks why, and we pretty much all say the same thing…”I’m tired of paying for cable”, which falls into the ‘can’t afford it’ button on the questionnaire. The rep certainly doesn’t ask the (appropriate) followup question, “Can you afford it?”. This results in the data is to generalized to make an accurate portrayal of what’s actually happening.

In addition, the CEO was making this presentation to a bunch of investors in NYC. So even if the CEO had better info, would he really spook investors by stating that ‘we’re losing our target market’?

By: mfocazio

mfocazio — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:56:26 +0000

I think that this argument “the shows you want to watch as early after they air as they do today” is one that seems to be cited over and over again by those who think cord-nevers aren’t a real factor, but, to make a strong point of it…it’s just TV…when I watch it is largely irrelevant…I don’t care that I’m not seeing the latest episode, I’ll watch it when it comes along. This – this is the thing that should have content distributors worried – the fact that TV programming simply isn’t that important to a growing number of people.

By: DG

DG — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:14:16 +0000

I hope he keeps this attitude. I’m a time warner customer and have some concern they might start capping bandwidth use to deal with people who stream all their content and don’t have a cable subscription. I’m in the boat of many others… younger professional, not rich, but at all low income.

By: digibandit

digibandit — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 02:43:09 +0000

the recent election demonstrates that there are a lot of folks out there young and old from all income groups that don’t want crappy reality -on Cable or in Life -SO you keep asking us to pay for your redneck crap programming and watch those cords get sliced away like shit velveeta cheese.

By: kionae

kionae — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:29:27 +0000

I, too, am a cord-cutter. I am a young, college-educated, professional. I am not rich, but I’m far from being “low-income”. I have absolutely no reason to go back to cable. Between Netflix (for movies and older shows) and Vudu (for next-day-air television a-la-carte), I can get anything I want to watch for less than 1/4 of what I was paying for a cable subscription.

By: John

John — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:49:53 +0000

So dang tired or watching 45 min of advertising and 15 min of show its sickening TV has become crap! Cord-Cutter.