A person who cancels or forgoes a pay television subscription or landline phone connection in favour of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service.
the ranks of the cord cutters are growing, adding to the incipient rebellion around pay TV
Example sentencesExamples
Perhaps intoxicated by the money they think they're saving, cord cutters tend to be evangelical about their lifestyle.
Even cord cutters needed the modern equivalent of bunny ears if they wanted to get live news on their television.
The vast majority of these cord cutters are college students and twenty-somethings, experts say.
While the number of cord cutters might be lower this year, it's hard to deny the number of new cable and satellite subscribers is slowing down.
Already, cord cutters are dropping cable or satellite to watch TV through iPads or game consoles.
Until recently these cord cutters have had little effect on the subscription TV market.
Pay-TV companies and networks need to make a change to stop the loss of cord cutters and entice the potential audience that's never paid for TV.
Once a specialty niche favored by geeks and cord cutters, these gadgets are some of the hottest items around.
But are cord cutters willing to spend the cash for content?
According to a recent survey, 33 percent of cord cutters would not return to cable, even if the cost was drastically reduced.
Definition of cord cutter in US English:
cord cutter
noun
informal
A person who cancels or forgoes a cable television subscription or landline phone connection in favor of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service.
a popular way for cord cutters to view programming on their TV is with a streaming video box
Example sentencesExamples
According to a recent survey, 33 percent of cord cutters would not return to cable, even if the cost was drastically reduced.
Perhaps intoxicated by the money they think they're saving, cord cutters tend to be evangelical about their lifestyle.
Once a specialty niche favored by geeks and cord cutters, these gadgets are some of the hottest items around.
The vast majority of these cord cutters are college students and twenty-somethings, experts say.
Pay-TV companies and networks need to make a change to stop the loss of cord cutters and entice the potential audience that's never paid for TV.
Until recently these cord cutters have had little effect on the subscription TV market.
But are cord cutters willing to spend the cash for content?
Even cord cutters needed the modern equivalent of bunny ears if they wanted to get live news on their television.
Already, cord cutters are dropping cable or satellite to watch TV through iPads or game consoles.
While the number of cord cutters might be lower this year, it's hard to deny the number of new cable and satellite subscribers is slowing down.