The number of Canadians cutting the cord is soaring in Canada, says a new report. According to the Convergence Consulting Group, 190,000 Canadians ended their ties with traditional TV in 2015. That's an 80 percent increase from the previous year when 105,000 people cut the cord. "It's almost a doubling of a loss," comments Brahm Eiley, president of the Toronto-based market research company. He says the jump is statistically...

Many Canadians are enraged by Netflix's declared war on cross-border watchers, who skirt the company's rules by sneaking across virtual borders to stream Netflix shows and movies restricted to other countries. Sometimes it's hard to be satisfied with Netflix Canada's library when our American neighbours have, it's estimated, access to almost double the content. Since mid-January, the streaming service giant is cracking down on border hoppers by blocking access to foreign content.

Netflix is a special company – the type of company that creates its own market space, rather than competing in an existing one. Netflix burst onto the scene in 1998 with a mail-delivery movie rental service that soon buried legacy rivals like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. In 2007, Netflix began to offer streaming video, essentially inventing the modern subscription streaming service. Now Netflix is in an interesting spot. Its movie rental triumphs are ancient history...

As antiquated as it might seem, the over-the-air antenna (OTA) is actually experiencing a revival of sorts, with 21 percent of US households using an antenna in 2015, according to the Consumer Technology Association, up four percentage points compared to the year before. In an age where Comcast-hate is at an all-time high, there’s a growing cord cutting movement with people looking to watch TV without the constraints of a cable contract. In many cases, that requires the four big networks: NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. And at this point, the easiest solution for those is an antenna.

If streaming TV has proved nothing else, it's that we are a nation of gluttons. Freed from network schedules and ads, viewers can now shut off the outside world and revel in episode after episode of favorite series the moment they arrive in a massive data dump.

When US lawmakers hold public hearings about the cable TV and broadband industries, their main goals are usually to criticize regulators and try to strip the Federal Communications Commission of its consumer protection powers. But in an unusual twist, senators are actually planning to force cable companies to explain why they offer such poor customer service. US Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) yesterday announced a hearing in which cable TV and satellite TV companies will answer questions about "practices involving billing, fees, refunds, and other customer service issues."

The FCC has another battle on their hands. On Thursday, the “Future of TV” Coalition, a group consisting of mostly of the top TV providers, released plans for their “Ditch the Box” campaign. The pay-TV industry would commit to creating apps to allow consumers to watch programs without needing to lease a box. The FCC could implement regulations

The rise of CBS All Access, and the network's own original content, shows that the decline of free TV has begun.

In the best deal available today for cord-cutters, Sling TV now offers customers their choice of more than 100 channels.

ESPN is planning to skip TV providers and sell "a package of live programming" directly to consumers over the web, according to a new report from The Information. But the over-the-top offering...

More of the Olympics will be available online than over conventional TV. Here's how to watch it.

Yesterday was pretty much TV data dork Christmas, with Tivo’s Digitalsmith research firm releasing its latest white paper about the state of the stuff we spend so many hours of our lives with our eyes passively sucking in. Polling 3,000-some participants, the “Q2 2016 Video Trends Report” is a wide-ranging look at American viewing and spending habits, including a slight uptick in people cutting the cable cord (and grabbing their basic network channels via digital antenna), and a reiteration of the idea that almost nobody digitally rents.

You have more choices for your football-watching pleasure on the internet than ever, and that's a problem.

There’s no end of chatter these days about the effects of “cord cutting” — traditional cable or satellite subscribers who are cancelling their subs in favor of streaming services like Netflix or Amazon. It makes sense: cable and satellite companies have long shoehorned customers into pre-made bundles and discouraged any sort of “a la carte” options. With so much streaming content now available, many have decided cable and satellite aren’t worth the extra expense. But, it turns out, not as many people are cutting those cords as you might expect.

When it comes to services that stream on-demand content, Netflix is king. Everyone knows that. However, over the last quarter, skepticism towards the service has grown. Back in July, Netflix's quarterly report revealed significantly slower subscriber growth in the US. While some speculated the service has reached it's saturation point in the US, others think there might be another issue. "The reason is obvious and has been expected in some circles: Higher monthly subscription costs for customers...

Ok, it’s no secret that people hate cable. Comcast is far and wide known as the most despised company in America. And the others aren’t far behind. But is anyone surprised? Who doesn’t have a horror story about dealing with their cable company’s customer service (if you don’t have one yourself, go ahead and check out some of these insane ones and learn how much Comcast really cares). Luckily, as cord cutting options continue to grow, people are fighting back. And the cable companies are feeling it. In Q2 of this year alone, Big Cable lost almost a million subscribers.

As the debate over just how much the cable industry has to fear from cord cutting rages on, there’s one common misunderstanding that never seems to disappear. “Cord-Cutting Isn’t a Bargain Anymore,” read one recent headline, claiming consumers who dropped a cable TV subscription wouldn’t save much money. Similar analysis can be found in “Cord-Cutting Is Gonna Suck in 2016,” or “The Myth of TV Cord-Cutting.” What these recent stories—and many more—get wrong is the economics of cutting the cable.

Confirming earlier leaks, Roku this morning unveiled a refreshed and rebranded line of streaming media players, with the intent of plugging every hole in the market.

How you get your cable TV may be about to undergo a historic change.

The tech is great, but watching the content -- what there is of it -- requires a high-speed Internet connection and a top-of-the-line TV.