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Cord-cutting. In broadcast television, cord-cutting refers to the pattern of viewers, referred to as cord-cutters, cancelling their subscriptions to multichannel television services available over cable or satellite, dropping pay television channels or reducing the number of hours of subscription TV viewed in response to competition from rival ...
Minerva Studio/Shutterstock It's an appealing idea to ditch your cable TV provider for much cheaper alternatives. Since there are now a host of such plans, there has been much talk of "cord ...
The phenomenon of cord-cutting is a couple of years old now, yet cable and other conventional pay TV options, such as satellite, continue to thrive. Or do they? A handful of studies have looked at ...
Uses and gratifications theory is a communication theory that describes the reasons and means by which people seek out media to meet specific needs. The theory postulates that media is a highly available product, that audiences are the consumers of the product, and that audiences choose media to satisfy given needs as well as social and psychological uses, such as knowledge, relaxation, social ...
Doomer and, by extension, doomerism, are terms which arose primarily on the Internet to describe people who are extremely pessimistic or fatalistic about global problems such as overpopulation, peak oil, climate change, ecological overshoot, pollution, nuclear weapons, and runaway artificial intelligence.
Since there are now a host of such plans, there has been much talk of "cord cutting," or the symbolic severing of Cord-Cutting: The Real Story Behind the Myth Skip to main content
As of the end of Q1, U.S. pay-TV services had 75.5 million customers, down nearly 7% on an annual basis. Cable TV operators’ rate of decline in Q1 reached -9.9% year over year, while satellite ...
Detonating cord. Detonating cord (also called detonation cord, detacord, detcord, or primer cord) is a thin, flexible plastic tube usually filled with pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN, pentrite). With the PETN exploding at a rate of approximately 6,400 m/s (21,000 ft/s), any common length of detonation cord appears to explode instantaneously.